In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace ...

49. Ibid., 78, 227.
50. Ibid., 87–88.
51. Ibid., 228.
52. See Shapin’s and Barnes’s discussion,
1977, 59–64.
53. Letter of January 15, 1840, AJRW, l.
3.
54. Letter of April 25, 1859, AJRW, l. 44.
55. WB17, I, 106.
56. Ibid., 102–3.
57. Ibid., 105.
58. Ibid., 201–2.
59. Ibid., 202.
60. Herschel, 1830, 14.
61. Ibid., 92.
62. WB17, I, 232.
63. Chambers, 1844, 222.
64. Ibid., 152.
65. In Desmond and Moore, 1991, 341.
66. WB17, I, 254.
Chapter 2. The Evolution of a
Naturalist
1. In Marchant, 1916, 26.
2. Darwin, 1839.
3. Humboldt, 1818.
4. WB17, I, 232.
5. Edwards, 1847, 29.
6. WB17, I, 264.
7. WB2, 2.
8. Bates, 1863, 5.
9. Ibid., 265.
10. Ibid., 266.
11. Ibid., 268.
12. Ibid., 269.
13. WB2, 1–6.
14. Ibid., 157.
15. W4, 74–75.
16. WB2, 19–25. The use of hot-air balloons
to glide across the rain-forest canopy
became a common method of naturalists
over a century later in the 1980s.
17. W5, 156–57.
18. WB2, 29.
19. Ibid., 22.
20. Bates, 1851, 3144.
21. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
1850, 2d. ser. 5.
22. WB17, I, 277–78.
23. WB2, 222–23.
24. In WB17, I, 270.
25. WB2, 56.
332 / Notes
26. Ibid., 75.
27. Ibid., 85.
28. Ibid., 121.
29. Ibid., 280–90.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., 290–96.
32. Ibid., 300–309.
33. Ibid., 322.
34. Ibid., 326–27.
35. Ibid., 327–28.
36. W8, 3641–43.
37. WB2, 400–401.
38. Hooker, 1854, 62.
39. Spruce, 1855.
40. W6–14.
41. W9, 109.
42. Ibid., 110.
43. W14, 257–58.
Chapter 3. Breaching the Walls of
the Species Citadel
1. WB17, I, 323–24.
2. RGS, 1853.
3. WB27, I, 327.
4. Ibid., 354.
5. LS, ms. 140a.
6. WB3, 3.
7. W21.
8. WB27, I, 355.
9. W21. All quotes from the “On the
Law” paper are from this reference.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. CCD, 6, 514.
16. DAR, Vol. 98, no. 8 of 15 letters received
by Darwin from Blyth in Calcutta,
December 8, 1855. Barbara Beddall (1972,
158) concludes: “If Blyth’s letter went off as
expected, Darwin could have received it as
early as late February 1856. But whether he
received it before or after the meeting with
Lyell in April, he knew from it that more
than one other person had grasped the significance
of Wallace’s paper.”
17. In Wilson, 1970, xxxix.
18. In Wilson, 1970, xliii–xlvii.
19. Dated September 5, 1857. CCD, 6,
446. In fact, Beddall (1968, 292) correctly
(I think) remarks: “Why did Darwin send