S003    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1849. Journey to explore the Province of Pará. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 2) 3 (13): 74-75.   Text   Image   PDF

S006    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1850. Journey to explore the natural history of the Amazon River. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 2) 6 (36, December): 494-496.   Text   Image   PDF

S010    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1854. On the insects used for food by the Indians of the Amazon. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (n.s.) 2 (part VIII): 241-244.   Text   Image   PDF

S014a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1854. [Letter dated 26 September 1854, Singapore]. Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art No. 1978: 1077-1078.   Text   Image   PDF

S019    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1855. Extracts of a letter From Mr. Wallace. Hooker's Journal of Botany 7 (7): 200-209.   Text   Image   PDF

S021    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1855. Letter [dated 8 April 1855, Borneo]. Zoologist 13 (154): 4803-4807.   Text   Image   PDF

S717[3d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1896. Miracles and modern spiritualism. Revised edition, with chapters on apparitions and phantasms. London: George Redway.   Text   PDF

S721[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1892. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. Second and revised edition. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.   Text   PDF

NHM-WP07.072[2]    Printed:    1894.06.00   Another copy of "The Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions"

S081[.1]    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1864. On some anomalies in zoological and botanical geography. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 19: 1-15.   Image   PDF

S220a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1873. Mr. Wallace and the Zetetic. The Zetetic: A Monthly Journal of Cosmographical Science 1 (7, January): 56.   Text   Image

S323a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1880. Letter. In: Wilson, C.A. Phylloxera vastatrix. South Australian Register (Adelaide) 45 (no. 10447, 8 May 1880): 6.   Image   PDF

S358aa    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1883. Mr. Wallace on land nationalization. Pall Mall Gazette no. 5594 (3 Feb. 1883): 2.

S383aa    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1885. Illegal roadside enclosures. The Daily News (London) no. 12310 (24 Sept. 1885): 3.

S410a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1888. Peasant proprietorship or land nationalization for Ireland. Pall Mall Gazette no. 7361 (19 Oct. 1888): 11.

S568aa    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1899. Is Britain on the down grade? The Young Man 13 (June): 223-224 (222-227).

S616a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1904. The immigration of aliens. The Clarion (London) no. 652 (3 June 1904): 8.

NHM-WP01.005.007    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1886.11.00   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Boston", containing six press cuttings from: The Boston Daily Advertiser 5 Nov 1886, reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on the "Permanence of Oceans" at the Lowell Institute on 4 Nov 1886. The New York Daily Tribune 12 Nov 1886, headlined "Wind as a seed carrier" and reporting on papers read at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Boston 11 Nov 1886, including A. R. Wallace's reading of his paper "The wind as a seed carrier in relation to one of the difficult problems in geographical distribution." An unnamed and undated paper (c.12 Nov 1886), headlined "The Academy of Sciences" reporting on papers read at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Boston 11 Nov 1886 including A. R. Wallace's reading of his paper "The wind as a seed carrier in relation to one of the difficult problems in geographical distribution." The Boston Daily Advertiser 25 Nov (1886) headlined "Lowell Institute Lecture" reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on Darwinism at the Lowell Institute. The Boston Post (undated, but from internal evidence 25 Nov 1886) reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on Darwinism at the Lowell Institute. The Beacon, Boston 20 Nov 1886, with a general report on A. R. Wallace's lectures at the Lowell Institute. The Boston Herald, undated (c. 5 Nov 1886) headlined "Application of Darwinism", reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on the oceans, at the Lowell Institute on 4 Nov 1886. Place: Boston Massachusetts USA

NHM-WP01.005.021    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1887.03]   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Canada", containing a press cutting from an unnamed and undated paper (Mar 1887?), headlined "Dr. Alfred R. Wallace. | His lectures at University College - Brief sketch of his labours and works." Place: Canada Notes: Date based on Raby (2002) , p. 239

NHM-WP01.008.114    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1913.01.07   Postcard showing a black and white view of Thursley from the cricket ground from Jessie Stent, from Thursley, 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday. Place: Broadstone Dorset Thursley Surrey England

NHM-WP02.004.002    Note:    [1889.11.19]   1 folio ms in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? VIW's? hand headed "Triugissime Vice Cancellarie Vosque Egregii Procuratores" with Latin [oration] admitting A. R. Wallace to Hon Degree Oxford, dated "Oxford Nov? 19th? | 1889" in same hand; copied from the original? Place: Oxford Oxfordshire England

NHM-WP04.004.003    Note:    1902.08.25   Sketch elevation in ink on pale blue paper for wood-lined walls of study, 25 Aug 1902, signed and dated by A. R. Wallace and apparently drawn by him. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP06.002.001    Printed:    1871.02.15   Printed review from "The Academy", 15 Feb 1871, of A. R. Wallace, "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection" (London 1870). Notes: Sheet too large to unfold fully in a standard archive box. When listed filed in box 2 with papers in a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and print.

NHM-WP06.005.002    Printed:    1889.06.00   Undated (before June 8, 1889) press cutting annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Edinburgh Leader"; review by professor Geddes of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism,: an exposition of of the theory of natural selection..." (London 1889) in small envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "P. Geddes | Revs of "Darwinism". Notes: Back refers to a company subscription list closing on June 8th, 1889. When listed filed in box 2 with papers in a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and print.

NHM-WP06.008.024.[01]    Draft:    1905.07.28--1905.10.02   Incomplete printed page proofs of A. R. Wallace's autobiography "My Life" vol. 1, front matter and pages [1] -400. 26 date-stamped sections of approximately four sheets (16 pp) each, with corrections in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand. The first page of each section except the first is annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "Author" "Author's final proof" or "Author's corrected proof." The first section is annotated on the title page "Press" in A. R. Wallace"s? hand. Dates are from 28 Jul 1905 to 2 Oct 1905, not in strict page order. All but three sections are stamped on the first page "First Proof [date]"; three sections including title page to page. xii are stamped "Revise [date]". A few lines have been cut from the top section of pages 155-156 and pages 153, 154, 157 and 158 missing. Pages 401-416, 423-24 and 427-435 were inserted between pages 400 and 401of the proofs for vol. 2 when listed (See old ref WP2/19/2) and have been relocated here. Pages 417-22 and 425-26 are missing. Notes: Sheets other than those noted above may be cut or missing. Except where pages were obviously loose, only front and back pages of each section were checked when listing. For convenience of location each proof section has been numbered in pencil in square brackets with the piece reference code and a section number, but these are NOT intended to be classed as separate pieces and have NOT been separately recorded.

NHM-WP06.008.025.[02]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1905.09.06--1905.10.02   Stamped brown envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone (Dorset) from "The Fortnightly Review", London, postmarked 14 Sep [1905], annotated on the back in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Proofs | Vol 2", which contained these proofs when listed. Notes: Individual sections and pages NOT marked with reference or section numbers because of the large number of missing pages.

NHM-WP06.008.026.[02]    Draft:    1908.06.04?--1908.10.05   Board labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "My Life | Set of Proofs." Notes: Held between coarse acidic boards back and front and tied with string when listed. Only the front board, with A. R. Wallace's annotation, retained. Proofs have not been checked for duplicates or omissions and sections have not been numbered.

NHM-WP06.011.001    Printed:    1913.05.05--1913   Cutting from "The Times", New York, 5 May 1913, made by Henry Romeike, Inc., Newspaper cuttings bureau, New York, of a review headlined "Against Eugenics" with no by-line, of A. R. Wallace's book "Social environment and moral progress" (London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne, 1913). A. R. Wallace's Broadstone address is in pencil on the back of the attachment. Place: USA

NHM-WP07.004    Printed:    1855.00.00--1856.05.00   "Some Account of an Infant 'Orang-Utan"' by A. R. Wallace, from the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" May 1856? pp. 386-390; offprint sewn into paper cover:annotated on the cover in A. R. Wallace's and WGW's? hand in ink and pencil "Alfred R Wallace | On an infant Orang-utan | Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist.| 1855 | Wallace | Please return". Smith's Bibliography gives the publication date as 1856. Notes: Smith: S 23. Some Account of an Infant "Orang-utan." Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17 (2nd s.): 386-390 (May 1856: no. 101, 2nd s.)

NHM-WP07.006    Printed:    1856.09.00--1856   "Attempts at a Natural Arrangement of Birds" by A. R. Wallace, offprint pp. [193]-216 from "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" Sep 1856, sewn into brown paper cover annotated on front in WGW's? hand in pencil "Wallace on Nat. Arrangement of Birds. | 1856".

NHM-WP07.012    Printed:    1859.03.00   "Letter from Mr. Wallace on the Geographical Distribution of Birds", reprint pp. [1]-6 of a letter from Batchian dated March 1859, sewn into brown paper cover with title on front in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand and underlinings and marginal marks in text, from "The Ibis", 1: 449-454 (Oct. 1859: no. 4). Place: Batchian

NHM-WP07.014    Printed:    1859.11.03--1860.02.00   "The Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago" by A. R. Wallace, offprint sewn into brown paper cover, from the "Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology" Feb 1860, pp. 172-184, annotated on the front in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Zool. Geog. Mal. Arch | Wallace" and in ink in the same? hand "Duplicate"; some markings in blue pencil in the text. Place: Malaya Notes: On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago [communicated by Charles Darwin to the LSL meeting of 3 Nov. 1859]. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology 4: 172-184 (1860).

NHM-WP07.018    Printed:    1862.10.00--1862   "On some new Birds from the Northern Moluccas" by A. R. Wallace, offprint sewn into brown paper cover, from "The Ibis" Oct 1862, pp. [1]-4, annotated on front cover in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's WGW's? hand "New Birds | Wallace" and in black pencil "1862". Notes: Ibis 4: 348-351 (Oct. 1862: no. 16).

NHM-WP07.024    Printed:    1863.11.10   "On the identification of the Hirundo Esculenta of Linnaeus, with a synopsis of the Described species of Collocalia" by A. R. Wallace, offprint or page proof, pp [1]-4, from "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" 10 Nov 1863. Notes: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1863: 382-385 (1863)

NHM-WP07.026    Printed:    1864.01.07--1864   "On some Anomalies in Zoological and Botanical Geography" by A. R. Wallace, reprint or offprint pp. [1]-15, with minor corrections in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand to a table p. 8, from "The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal" NS Vol. XIX No. 1 Jan 1864. Notes: Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 19: 1-15 (7 Jan. 1864). A retitled printing of "On the Geographical Distribution of Animal Life", read at the BAAS meeting in Newcastle 31 AUg 1863. See Smith S81.

NHM-WP07.031    Printed:    1865.01.24--1865   "On the Progress of Civilisation in Northern Celebes" by A. R. Wallace, offprint pp. [1] - 10 ) of a paper read at the Ethnological Society of London meeting of 24 Jan.1865, (from Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London" 4 (n.s.): 61-70 (1866) - see Smith S104; titled on cover in A. R. Wallace's hand "Civilisation in Northern Celebes". See WP7/30 for a copy. Place: Celebes Netherlands Indies

NHM-WP07.036.001    Printed:    1867.02.00--1867.03.23   "Caterpillars and Birds", proof? or leaflet for distribution, undated (Feb 1867?) letter to the Editor (of "The Field") from A. R. Wallace asking readers to make observations of which types of caterpillar various birds eat or reject with particular attention to the colour of the caterpillar; annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Referred to in 'Darwinism' p. 236". Place: London England Notes: Smith: S130. Caterpillars and Birds [letter to the editor]. The Field, The Country Gentleman's Newspaper 29: 206a-b (23 March 1867: no. 743). --reprints: as a separate, for distribution. Formerly with letters to A. R. Wallace from S B J Skertchly; assumed to be misfiled.

NHM-WP07.037    Printed:    1868.01.00--1868.04.00   Print by A. R. Wallace on raptorial Birds of the Malay archipelago, c. Jan and Apr 1868. Place: Malaya Notes: S141. On the Raptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis 4 (n.s.): 1-27 (& 1 colour plate) (Jan. 1868: no. 13, n.s.). S142. Corrections of, and Additions to, the Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis 4 (n.s.): 215-216 (April 1868: no. 14, n.s.).

NHM-WP07.039    Printed:    1869.12.16--1871.10.16   One copy of The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. Vol. XI, no. 53, 16 Oct 1871, including "A Catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago, by F. Smith, with introductory remarks by A.R. Wallace (Communicated by W.W. Saunders, read 16 Dec 1869); annotated on the front in pencil in an unknown hand "1869". Place: India

NHM-WP07.043.[02]    Printed:    1887.03.05   Press cutting from "The Banner of Light" 5 Mar 1887, letter to the Editor headed "Letter from Dr. Alfred R. Wallace in Re Mr. Ross", from A. R. Wallace "Washington D.C. Feb 23rd 1887" annotated (or signed) at the top in A. R. Wallace's or WGW's hand "A.R. Wallace"; re allegations by Prof. James of deception at a séance given by Mr Ross.

NHM-WP07.047    Printed:    1877.11.00   "Carpenterian Criticism being a reply to an article by Dr W.B. Carpenter in 'Fraser's Magazine' November 1877 entitled 'Psychological Curiosities of Spiritualism'. By 'M..A. (OXON.)"' Reprint from "Human Nature" Dec 1877, pp [1]-23, annotated on cover "A R Wallace esq. with the Writer's compts" and in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil "p.11 - Serjeant Cox's Handcuff test!" SEE OLD REF WP3/46.

NHM-WP07.052.[02]    Note:    1878.00.00--1899.03.00   Ms in an unknown hand ; including a printed design for a powder-keg pasted onto the first page, headed "The Storage of Gunpowder with absolute security against explosion,. By A. R. Wallace", 3 folios foolscap with "(Signed) | A. R. Wallace | Croydon July 1, 1878 | Godalming June 1882" all crossed through on the last page; a note in A. R. Wallace's hand beginning "the preceeding description applies …" is attached and dated Parkstone, Dorset March 1899;

NHM-WP07.054    Printed:    1879.07.00--1879   "Glacial epochs and Warm polar climates" by A. R. Wallace, offprint or proof pp. 223-253, from; Quarterly Review, Jul.1879, sewn into blue paper cover annotations on the front in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand include title and his signature.

NHM-WP07.058    Printed:    1891.10.00--1891.12.00   "English and American flowers" by A. R. Wallace, heavily corrected proof, pp. [1]-15, from Fortnightly Review, Oct & Dec 1891; in brown paper cover titled and annotated on the front in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand in ink, with a mathematical calculation in ink on the bottom front cover.

NHM-WP07.061    Draft:    1892.08.00--1892   "Why I voted for Mr Gladstone" by A. R. Wallace, proof sheets pp. [182] -185 pasted onto white paper in white paper cover annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand; from "Nineteenth Century" Aug 1892. Notes: Smith: S454. Why I Voted for Mr. Gladstone. IV. [one of eight invited replies to an inquiry]. Nineteenth Century 32: 182-185 (177-193) (Aug. 1892: no. 186).

NHM-WP07.062.[02]    Draft:    1892.08.00   "The Permanence of the Great Oceanic Basins" by A. R. Wallace, 3 sets of proofs comprising: 2."The Permanence of the Great Oceanic Basins." I. by A. R. Wallace, proofsheets? pp. [416]-417 (2 copies), 419-420 (2 copies), 421-426 (2 copies) - p. 418 and possibly a figure, missing, one copy of title page annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Nat. Science | Aug. 1892"; from Natural Science, Aug 1892.

NHM-WP07.064.[03]    Draft:    1892.12.00   "Note on Sexual Selection" by A. R. Wallace, ms notes and proofs comprising: 3. "Note on Sexual Selection" by A. R. Wallace, corrected proof pp. [749]-750, from "Natural Science", Dec 1892, 1 f. Notes: Smith bibliog: S459. Note on Sexual Selection. Natural Science 1: 749-750 (Dec. 1892: no. 10).

NHM-WP07.067    Printed:    1893.11.08   "Footpaths along Railways", letter to the Editor by A. R. Wallace; Romeike & Curtice agency press cutting from the Leeds Mercury, 8 Nov 1893.

NHM-WP07.068.[02]    Note:    1893.02.00   Papers re "Inaccessible Valleys" by A. R. Wallace comprising: 2. Note in A. R. Wallace's hand: 'Article written in February 1893 - no copy. | A.R.W. |"Nineteenth Century"' Notes: Smith:S464. Inaccessible Valleys; A Study in Physical Geography. Nineteenth Century 33: 391-404 (March 1893: no. 193).

NHM-WP07.074    Draft:    1894.01.00--1894   "How to Preserve the House of Lords" , by A. R. Wallace, corrected proof, pp [1]-9 sewn into dark brown paper cover titled on front in ink in A. R. Wallace's ? or another hand; from "Contemporary review, Jan 1894.