Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters And Reminiscences, Vol. 1

Recollections of Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
The author says in preface to the book: These two volumes consist of a selection from several thousands of letters entrusted to me by the Wallace family and dating from the dawn of Darwinism to the second decade of the twentieth century, s