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Abbreviations
ARW
Alfred Russel Wallace
BL
British Library
CCD
Burkhardt, Smith et al. (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
CUL
Cambridge University Library
LR
James Marchant (ed.), Letters and Reminiscences of Alfred Russel Wallace
MA
ARW, The Malay Archipelago
ML
ARW, My Life, 1908 one-volume edition, unless otherwise indicated
NA
Henry Walter Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazons
OMNH
Oxford Museum of Natural History (Hope Library)
RBG, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
RGS
The Archives of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
TA
ARW, Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
WFA
Wallace family archive
ZSL
Zoological Society, London
Index
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Aberdare, Lord 225
Adelboden 264
Agassiz, Alexander 237
Agassiz, Louis 174
agouti 41
Alchemilla alpina 262
Alexandro (Amazon) 42
Ali (Malay Archipelago) 110, 115, 118, 123, 124, 125, 134, 140, 142, 154, 156
Allen, Charles 4, 93, 101, 105, 106, 107, 108, 116, 146, 147, 152
Allen, Grant 3, 254–55, 257
alligators 52, 69
Allingham, Helen 228
Allingham, William 227–28, 231, 232, 234
Amboyna (Ambon) 128, 146
America 235–49
American Society for Psychical Research 238
Ampanam 113
Analcipus sanguinolentus 158
Annals and Magazine of Natural History 44, 84, 90, 104, 107, 125, 174
Anthropological Review 206
Anthropological Society 175–76
Antonio (Amazon) 39, 41
Antony, Senhor Henrique 53, 55, 56
Apis dorsata 155
Argus pheasant 96
Argyll, Duke of 196, 225
Arjuna, Mount 157
Arnica cordifolia 248
Aroyas 43
Aru Islands 116, 119–24, 125, 146; passage to 117–18
Athenaeum 157, 173, 197, 217
Attalea funifera 90
Ayer-panas 95
babirusa 145, 280
Bacan see Batchian
Baderoon (Malay Archipelago) 115, 118, 119, 120, 122, 124
Baker, James 244
Bali 112, 113, 114
Banca 159
Banda 128
Barra (Manaos) 53, 55–56, 76, 78, 80
Barrett, William 217, 222
Barton-in-the-Cley 15
Baso (Malay Archipelago) 115
Batavia (Jakarta) 158, 159
Batchian (Bacan) 142
Bates, Frederick 133
Bates, Henry Walter: Amazon, departure for 31; Amazon expeditions 35, 36, 37, 39, 42, 43, 44–45, 51, 54, 56, 76, 80, 83; Amazon profits 83; character 45; Darwin and 153, 159, 180; death 260–61; employment 179, 180; fatherhood 171; illness 76; marriage 171; mimicry and 167; natural selection and 173; Naturalist on the River Amazons 91, 172–73; parents’ disapproval 56; self-education 22; species and 56, 79, 127–28, 172; Wallace: divides spheres of interest with 56; first meeting with 22; friendship with 1, 26, 28, 167; joint expedition with 28; lost collections and 84; pension 225; Sarawak paper 127; separates from in Amazon 44–45; species, discussions about 45, 56, 127; and Wallace, Herbert 76; women and 36; Zoological Society and 164
Bateson, W. 282
Bau 101
Beccari, Odoardo 101
Beddall, Barbara 287
bee-eater 114
bee-hunters 154
bees 154–55
Belém see Pará
Bell, Thomas 85
bell birds 54–55
Bellamy, Edward 255
Bengal 94
Bentham, George 29–30, 50, 224
Besant, Annie 258
Bessir 150
Bethnal Green Museum 206, 208, 211
Bileling 113
Birch, Frederick 265, 276
birds of paradise: bringing one back to England 159–60, 160–62; buying 124; Great Paradise bird 116, 122; King Bird of Paradise 116, 120–22; new form 143; search for 135–37, 140, 148; Wallace, meaning of for 160; see also Paradisea
Blake, Charles Carter 175
blue morphos 41
Blyth, Edward 111, 134, 197
Boisduval, J. A. 91
Bombay 160
Bonaparte, Lucien 91
Borneo Company 112
Boston 236, 237
Bouru 155–56
Bowring, John 112
Brackman, Arnold 287, 288
Brandao, Senhor 56
Branner, Dr 243
Brecon Hills 19
bristle-tailed manikin 54
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Bath meeting 180; Cambridge meeting 169; Dundee meeting 194; Exeter meeting 204; Leeds meeting 140; Liverpool meeting 208; Newcastle meeting 174; Nottingham meeting 188; Swansea meeting 28–29
British Museum 124, 179, 194, 199
British Ornithologists Union 163
Brooke, Sir James (Rajah): piracy and 100; Wallace and 87, 100, 101, 109–10, 168; Wallace as guest 101, 109–10, 168
Brooks, John L. 287–89
Brown, Robert 139
Bruce-Joy, Albert 265–66
Bryanthus empetriformis 248
Buckley, Arabella 167, 212–13, 214, 225, 226
Bugis 140, 151
Buitenzorg 158
Bukit-tima 94
buprestis 105, 119
Busk, George 164
Butler, Frank 220, 290
Butler, Samuel 12, 187
Caiman gibbus 69
Cajeli 156
Calistro, Senhor 46
Callithea sapphira 50, 51–52
Cambridge Ghost Club 192
Cametá 42
Canada 239, 248–49
Candolle, Alphonse de 216, 281
Capim river 46
Carduus heterophyllus 25
caripe tree 39
Carlyle, Thomas 231–32
Carpenter, William 187, 189, 217
Cassell 283
Cassiquiare river 62, 67
cedar 41, 42
Cedrela odorata 41
Celebes (Sulawesi) 115–16, 124, 125, 144–56
Ceram 143, 146, 150, 155
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 94
Chambers, Robert: spiritualism and 191–92, 194; Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 26–27, 91, 102
Chapman and Hall 271, 274
Charaxes kadenii 158
chatterers 42, 61, 79
chinchona plants 182
Cincinnati 243, 244
Clark, J. W. 153
Clianthus dampieri 262
cockatoos 103, 113–14
cocks-of-the-rock (Gallos de Serra) 61, 63–64, 65, 66
Coleoptera 28, 29
collectors 29, 30, 50, 85–86
colonialism, Dutch 144–45
Combes, George 22, 23
Conrad, Joseph 292–93
Contemporary Review 228
Conurus carolineae 47
Cook, Florence 238
Cope, Edward 240
Coquille, La 136
Cornelius 146
Coues, Elliot 240
Coupang 153
Cowper, William 70, 71
creation theory 27
Crookes, William 190, 208, 217, 279
Crutwell,
Clement 10, 17
Crutwell, Mrs 13
Crystal Palace, Ethnological Department 86–87
Crystal Palace Company 160
cuckoos 95, 114
Curtis, John 85
cuscus 106
Cynogale bennetti 106
Cyphogastra calepyga 119
Darwin, Charles: Bates and 159, 172, 180; collecting network 114; death 230; finches and 27–28; letter missing 290; Lyell and 112; Malay Archipelago, reaction to 200–1; Malay Archipelago dedicated to 198, 200; man, discussion of delayed 134, 175; natural selection: Lyell and 112; man and 179; presentation with Wallace at Linnean Society 21, 138–39; priority and 139, 173, 287–91; originality, concern for 289; pangenesis hypothesis 196, 197; public controversy, avoidance of 290; publication urged on 112; religion and 292; reputation 291; sexual selection 196; son Charles, illness and death 138; spiritualism and 188, 190, 239; Wallace: collecting for Darwin 114–15; correspondence with 114–15, 125–27, 153–54, 159, 224; estimate of 172, 173; as guest of 168, 197; Higher Intelligence theories and 203, 205–6; influence on 289; lecture on 278, 279; meeting with 91; pension for 221, 222, 223–24, 225, 226; relationship with 168, 173, 291; Sarawak paper and 111, 125–25, 133–34; Ternate paper and 134, 137–39;
writings: autobiography 132; Descent of Man 201, 209, 292; Journal of the Voyage of the Beagle 19, 102; Life and Letters 277; Origin of Species 139, 142, 144, 146, 150, 152–53, 158, 164, 168, 288, 292; ‘Species and Varieties’ 129; Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication 196, 197; Worms 230
Darwin, Erasmus 27
Darwin, Francis 264, 277, 287, 288
Davis, Dr Joseph 112
Davos 263, 264
Denton, William 236
Dias, Antonio 68
Dickinson, Mrs (medium) 238
Dillwyn, Lewis Weston 25, 29
Dipteris horsfieldii 96
Dobbo 119–20, 124
Dodinga 130, 133
Doleschall, Dr 128
Dolgellau 188
Domingo (Amazon) 42
Dorey 135, 140
Doten, Lizzie 273
Doubleday, Edward 29, 30
doves 95
Duivenboden, Herr 129, 134
Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby 9
durians 107, 109
Dyaks 105, 107, 108, 109
Earl, G. W. 86
Eastwood, Alice 244, 247–48
Edinburgh Review 153
Edwards, William 30, 42, 243
Ega 56, 84
