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Wallace, Darwin and Ternate 1858

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Recent debates on the mailing date of Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Ternate essay' to Charles Darwin in the spring of 1858 have ignored certain details that, once taken into account, alter the matter considerably. Here, a closer look is taken at the critical question of whether Wallace's manuscript-accompanying letter represented a reply to the Darwin letter that arrived in Ternate on 9 March; it is concluded that it very probably did not.

Source: Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2013.0057

Author: Charles H. Smith

Institution: Western Kentucky University

Language: English

Topic: History of Science and Natural History

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2147679187

FWCI: 3.06

Cites: 14

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10