NHM-WP14.002.022    Printed:    1887.02.17   Press cutting headlined "Are there any great men?", annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Washington Post. Feby 17th 1887" and with text of the piece continued in his hand at the bottom margin. Place: USA Notes: Enclosed in envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "interesting extracts America 1886-7" when listed.

NHM-WP14.002.027    Printed:    1885.03.01   Reprint or proof sheet? from the Boston "Sunday Herald" 1 Mar 1885, headed "Mrs Isabella Hooker | A sketch of her plan for conversational receptions" Place: USA Notes: Record of original position in boxes lost, but probably with American press cuttings in old WP2/41

NHM-WP15.002.002    Printed:    1892.05.00   Reid, Clement, "On the Pleistocene deposits of the Sussex coast" reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for May 1892, vol. XLVIII, pp 344- 361. Annotated in ink on the cover "W. Mitten, Esqr. ALS from the author". Place: Sussex England

NHM-WP15.002.008    Printed:    1896.08.00   Reid, Clement "The Eocene deposits of Dorset" reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August 1896, vol. LII, pp 490-495. See WP15/1/4, letter Reid to Mitten, 8 Sep 1896. Place: Dorset England Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author, probably with WP1/14/17 of the same date.

NHM-WP15.002.010    Printed:    1897.03.04   Reid, Clement, "The Palaeolithic deposits at Hitchin and their relation to the glacial epoch" reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol 61, read 4 Mar 1897, Annotated in ink on the cover "W. Mitten, Esqure with the writer's compts. & thanks". Place: England Hertfordshire

NHM-WP15.002.012    Printed:    1898.05.00   Reid, Clement, "The Eocene deposits of Devon" reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for May 1898, vol. LIV pp. 234-236. Annotated on the front cover in ink "W. Mitten Esqure with the writer's kind regards". Place: Devon England

NHM-WP15.002.015    Printed:    1899.08.21   Barnes, Charles R, "The progress and problems of plant physiology," address to section G (Botany) of the forty-eighth annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Columbus, Ohio, 21 August 1899. (Easton, PA., 1899). 26 pages. Annotated in ink on the front cover "With the compliments of C R Barnes." Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten.

NHM-WP15.002.017    Printed:    1906.07.00   Larter, C E, "Some Cryptogams of the botanical districts of Braunton and Sherwill, North Devon". Reprinted from The Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 1906 - xxxviii. pp. 270-293. Sent to Miss Mitten (Flora Mitten?) by the author. Place: Devon England

NHM-WP15.002.019    Printed:    1894.04.25   Notice or reprint, 8 pages, "Linnean Society of New South Wales. Abstract of Proceedings, April 25th 1894" including a report on the adjourned annual general meeting of April 25th, 1894 chaired by professor T W E David, papers read at the monthly meeting on the same date, and exhibits. Place: Australia Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten

NHM-WP15.002.021    Printed:    1897.08.00   Printed pamphlet, "The House Sparrow (passer domesticus, Linnaeus)" by Eleanor A Ormerod and W B Tegetmeier, (London, August 1897) on the diet and behaviour of sparrows. 8 Pages. Annotated "With kind remembrances" in ink on the first page. Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten but possibly to A R Wallace.

NHM-WP15.003.004    Printed:    1907.01.10   Obituary of William Mitten by William Edward Nicholson, with bibliography, reprinted from The Bryologist, 10 Jan 1907. Titled "William Mitten a sketch with bibliography". Includes photographic portrait of Mitten standing, bearded, wearing a tweed suit and velvet smoking cap, holding a plant and magnifying glass, with a rose hedge in the background, with acknowledgements to James Britten and the Journal of Botany, Oct 1906.

NHM-WP16.001.056    Printed:    1917.04.09--1917   Obituary notice of Raphael Meldola, with portrait, by E B Poulton, reprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society 1917, pp. [i] - xxxvii, annotated on front cover in Poulton's hand "W.G. Wallace | with the kind regards of E.B. Poulton | April 9/1917 | Oxford ". Place: Oxford England

NHM-WP16.001.061    Printed:    1931.12.02--1931   Print, "Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London" 4 Feb - 2 Dec, 1931, vol. VI, 1931, pp [1]-67, annotated in Poulton's hand "With kind regards from E B Poulton. pp. 57, 60" including on p. 60 "Wallace and Bates on the Amazon" reporting on Prof Poulton's remarks on two letters sent by Herbert Bates from the Amazon to the Wallace family and lent to him by W G Wallace. See letter from Poulton to WGW in 28 Jul 1932, to which this was probably an enclosure. Place: Amazon Oxford England Notes: p. 57 includes descriptions of butterflies collected in Fiji by Hubert W Simmonds and their attraction to the plant Tournefortia argentea.

NHM-WP16.002.052    Printed:    1948.07.31--1948   Report of the Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Department of Ethnology, for the year ending 31 July 1948 University of Oxford, 11pp; annotated on the front in WGW's hand? "p. 8", marked in pencil in the margin of p. 8 next to the notice of a donation by W G Wallace of American stone implements collected by his father.

NHM-WP12.001    Printed:    [1790]   "What constitutes a State", poem, copy in A. R. Wallace's hand of verses apparently from "Ode in Imitation of Alceus" by Sir William Jones (1746-1794) - original c. 1790s?. Notes: Title found from quotations, various websites, but date not found.

NHM-WP12.003    Printed:    1857--1871   Papers by Francis P Pascoe describing coleoptera species collected by A. R. Wallace; six reprint or offprints dated from 1857-1871 including 2 copies of "Catalogue of Zygopinae, a subfamily of Curculonidae, Found by Mr. Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago" (1871) one of which was an probably enclosure to letter to WGW from F P Pascoe (Junior?) c 1913 ( See WP12/3/1); letter from F P Pascoe (Junior?) to WGW, 1913? ; annotated envelope. Notes: The following loose note in pencil in Richard Wallace's hand was stuck beneath the string tying all but one of these reprints and envelope when listed: "New Species Coll. A. R. Wallace described Pascoe | Cephalozia R Spruce | Hepaticae R Spruce | Precis (French) Spruce I On Anomoclada " | Yorkshire Mosses & Hepatics Slater". See WP8, papers re Richard Spruce and "Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes".

NHM-WP07.020    Printed:    1862?--1863.01.13   "List of Birds Collected in the island of Bouru…" by A. R. Wallace, offprint or page proofs, pp [1]-20, only partly cut, from "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" 13 Jan 1863, annotated faintly in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Read 1862"[sic].

NHM-WP12.003.006    Printed:    1863   Pascoe, Francis P, "List of the Colydiidae collected in the Indian Islands by Alfred R. Wallace Esq., and descriptions of new species"; offprint from the Journal of Entomology, vol. II, no. IX, 1863, pp. [121]-143 and plate VIII; annotated on the cover in an unknown hand (Pascoes?) "Colydiidae of Wallace". Place: Netherlands Indies

NHM-WP07.032    Printed:    1864--1865   "On the Varieties of Man in the Malay Archipelago" by A. R. Wallace, offprint or proof in green paper cover of a paper read 26 Jan 1864, pp. [196] -215, with deletions in pencil and another printed section pasted onto part of p. 214; titled on front in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Man in the Malay Archipelago" with "1864" added in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand; from Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 3 (n.s.): 196-215 (1865), see Smith S82. Place: Malaya

NHM-WP07.030    Printed:    1865--1866   "On the Progress of Civilisation in Northern Celebes" by A. R. Wallace, offprint with green cover, 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 with "1865" added in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. Place: Celebes Netherlands Indies

NHM-WP12.005    Printed:    1869   Pamphlet "British Association for the Advancement of Science. Exeter Change for the British Lions. Edited by Snug the Joiner" [J C Brough] (London 1869); satirical history, papers and address to the President of the BAAS, including "The Development Hypothesis ... by General Fitz Müddler" pp. 10-12, with a passage on page 12 describing Wallace ("Mr Darwin's alter ego") marked by a pencil line in the margin; 30 pages; approx 12 cm x 15cm; pages 19-22 inclusive have been cut out. Notes: A pencilled list of items in box 2 possibly in Richard Wallace's hand (not EB) was found loose near this work: placed in an envelope marked [for Richard Wallace 12 June] in the box containing old ref WP2/25 onwards. PJL 3/6/2003

NHM-WP10.001.[02]    Printed:    1870--1879?   Printed examination paper, Physical Geography elementary, advanced and honours, examiner Professor Ansted. 1876.

NHM-WP10.001.[05]    Printed:    1870--1879?   Part of a printed examination paper, ( physical geography) elementary, pasted onto a sheet of card apparently torn from the cover of a book. Annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand. Undated.

NHM-WP10.002.[02]    Printed:    1870?--1888?   Physical Geography No 2 Examination paper, A. Physical geography of Palestine. 1 folio print, undated, with annotations including, at the top, "Marks".

NHM-WP10.002.[04]    Printed:    1870?--1888?   Physical Geography No 1 Examination paper. A. Configuration of the earth. 1 folio print, undated, with annotations including, at the top, "Marks." This is NOT a duplicate of the first document, each having different questions.