BM-Am1935,1014.12    Miscellaneous:    1842   Axe made of stone. Obtained by A.R. Wallace in the Amazon. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".

NatLibWales-LlGC.NLW-003217356    Figure:    1845   Rees, David and Wallace, A. R. 1845. Map of the parish of Neath in the County of Glamorgan. Shows canal with towpath, waterbodies, woods, building names, chemical works, workhouse, rope walk. Scale 1:6,336. 1 in. = 8 chains. 1 ms. map : col ; 50 x 70 cm. + apportionment schedule (1, 7, 3 leaves).   Image

NHM-WP17.200    Figure:    1845   Watercolour painting of the town of Neath, Wales   Image

NHM-WP03    Note:    1846--1913   Diaries, notebooks and sketchbooks kept by A. R. Wallace and members of his family comprising: address book; diary of a journey in the Lake District; sketchbook; undated notebook in an unknown hand and notebook with entries c. 1846-1913 in A. R. Wallace's hand and that of other members of his family including his brother-in-law Thomas Sims on various topics including lectures and photography. WP3/1 1846-1885? Notebook with notes in several hands WP3/2 1856? Sketch book containing pencil sketches WP3/3 1873?-1913 Address and Note book WP3/4 1893 Notebook with notes re tour of Lake District WP3/5 ND Undated Notebook in an unknown hand beginning "Why is the Sea salt?"

NHM-WP17.097    Figure:    1846   Sketch of cottage in Wales

NHM-Z_MSS89_O_WAL[.3]    Note:    1847--1852   Notebook: Notes on Amazon fishes

LINSOC-MS182    Notebook:    1854--1862   "Palms of the Amazon."

NHM-WP03.017[.02]    Figure:    1848--1852   Sketch made on the Amazon. On the back of the sketch is written in Wallace's hand, "Sketch no. 5. Mr C's. Hous[e] in the Island of Mexicana"

NHM-WP03.017[.04]    Figure:    1848--1852   Sketch made on the Amazon. On the back of the sketch is written in Wallace's hand, "Sketch no. 13".

NHM-WP02.001.002    Photo:    [1850]   Group portrait photo, undated, c. 1850 showing A. R. Wallace aged 27-30 seated near his mother with his sister Fanny standing behind them leaning one arm on Wallace's chair; black and white; apparently photographed from an album.

NHM-WP17.001    Photo:    1850--1860   Portrait of an unknown man (Thomas Sims? Thomas Vere Wallace?) seated on a chair apparently next to a curtained four-poster bed; small ( 9.5 cm x 6 cm) very faded sepia photographic portrait on thin paper, apparently a photograph of a framed photograph. Notes: Formerly a loose enclosure between ff. 37 and 38 of diary/notebook in several hands -See WP3/1. Torn at one edge, very faded

NHM-WP19.07b    Figure:    1850--1855   Fire insurance

NHM-WP06.008.018.[01]    Photo:    [1853--1865]   Portrait photo of A. R. Wallace aged 30, seated at a table in profile facing right, with glasses and rudimentary side whiskers; photo very spotty and faded; reproduced in "My Life" vol. 1 p. 324 with date 1853. 2.

NHM-WP15.001    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1853--1906   Correspondence 1853-1906 comprising a letter from W H Harvey to J D Hooker re Mitten and letters to William Mitten from A. R. Wallace and Clement Reid; from Mitten to his daughter (Annie Mitten/ Wallace?) and from C E Larter to Mitten's daughter (Flora?), mostly on botanical subjects.

NHM-Ms_140f    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1854--1856   Photocopies of letters to Stevens (from Cambridge University Library)

LINSOC-MS179    Notebook:    1854--1861   [Notebook 1]

NHM-WP03.018    Note:    1854--1862   Note in Wallace's hand entitled "Notes on Curculionidae" with the following localities covered; Singapore, Sarawak, Aru Islands, Macassar, Ternate, Dorey, Ceram, Waigion, Batchian and Menado

NHM-WP19.23    Figure:    1854--1900   Drawing of Algae drawing - Herbarium

NHM-WP19.25    Figure:    1854--1900   Plant drawing - Herbarium

NHM-WP07.003    Printed:    1855   Reprint "On the Law which has regulated the introduction of new species" by A. R. Wallace from "Annals and Mag, Nat Hist Sept 1855, 14 pp. pamphlet annotated on front in A. R. Wallace's hand with title and "Only Copy left".

LINSOC-MS180    Notebook:    1855--1859   [Notebook 4] "Notes. Vertebrata." "Notes. Insects 4."

NHM-WP19.03    Figure:    1855   "In a clearing, Simunjon, Borneo." [1855]. Watercolour painting of a rainforest tree in a clearing at Simunjan, Sarawak

NHM-WP19.04    Figure:    1855   "Rhacophorus n.s. Tree frog. Sarawak. Back & limbs dark green, beneath and inner toes yel. web black at base, yellow rayed at margin, legs not at all banded, glossy dark uniform green" Watercolour painting of Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) from Sarawak

NHM-WP19.27    Figure:    1855   Watercolour painting of the head of a female rhinoceros hornbill from Sarawak. "Rhinoceros Hornbill of Borneo. ♀ ⅔ of natural size"   Image

NHM-WP19.05b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of flower. "Crewen Dyak." "white flower with 2 bract, calyx valvate, 5 sepals. Corolla imbricate twisted stamens in five flat bundles opp petals - all fertile anthers of 3/4/5 female globes discharging pollen by pores. style purple stigma capitate - ovary 5 celled with central placenta, each 2 seeded- surrounded by elongate conical warts terminated in stillate hairs in Sterculiaceae". "leaves alternate, no stipules, 9 in long, thick leathery with strong et diag with a eulumarginal at the end. bark rather rough, stem cylindrical slightly butressed at base. Exudes a thick resinous turpentine sap - mix with Dammia for caulking"

NHM-WP19.06b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Leaves. "Cugorowan Leaves hard dark green, alternate ovate acute exstipulate with parallel veins curving up at margin often cross vein between. Branch dicompound congent? like with line at ends. Gen 3 inc long, bark rough longitudially centred trunk cyclindical, slightly buttressed at base 150-200 ft".

NHM-WP19.08    Figure:    1855   Sketch of Tall Tree. "stem partially taller in proportion to the branching head".

NHM-WP19.10b    Figure:    1855   Pencil drawing of flowers. "Leaves ovate acute smooth without stipules. Crowded but whorled? at end of petals".

NHM-WP19.14a    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Tree with creepers. "Si Munjon"

NHM-WP19.15b    Figure:    1855   Watercolour of a flower. "Anonaceae ?annona" "a fruit showing the atalked carpels - pale yellow" " An allied sp. flower pale buff, fruit pale green subacid" "Leaves alternate without stipules, ovate acute - no dots or marginal waves, curved veins. Flower deep orange - in twos 30 degrees near the stem. Some trees are and more crowded with flowers than shown on the other side. Colour most intense and brillant orange"

NHM-WP19.18b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Tree

NHM-WP19.19b    Figure:    1855   Drawings of leaves and fruit. "Lunquon" "Fruit roundish oval with two elongate oval seeds in pulp. Outer shell hard" "Leaves pinnate alternate in a bunch at the end of the branchlets. Leaflets opp. ovate smooth, 2 -3 in long. Trunk rather short, above much waved & twisted branchlets very numberous and much contorted. bark very smooth. Stem bustressed"

NHM-WP19.21b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Areca gracilis. "leaflets slightly narrow..... sets of 3-4, comb like species"

NHM-WP03.002    Note:    [1856]   Sketch book containing pencil sketches in an unknown hand (A. R. Wallace? HEW?) including a scene of [Chinese?] and western men [sailors? dancing? in a clearing in front of palm trees and huts, [Church?] ruins [in Wales?], portraits (copies, including Byron? - has over the top the quote "Look on his feature and behold his mind …", "Napoleon Buonaparte" - hand looks like A. R. Wallace's - and George III, Jane Austen? Nelson? And Beethoven? ); portrait of a child writing by candle light; landscapes, decorative details of buildings. Book approx 18.5 cm x 14 cm with pink and grey marbled paper cover sewn on without spine, about 20 pages, most with protective tissue interleaved.

NHM-WP18.004.002    Note:    [1856]--[1862]   Rough undated note in pencil listing (biography categories? aspects of the study and practice of entomology?) including "Friends (photos)" "Correspondents" "Books -Societies" "cleaning-repinning and carding" and "Distribution - knowing where species come from". Possibly in A. R. Wallace's early hand but doubtful. Notes: First date based on letter to H W Bates from A. R. Wallace in 1856 including discussion of need to record location of species collected

NHM-WP19.09    Figure:    1856   Pencil sketch of "Harrow, used by the natives of Macassar, Celebes."

NHM-WP19.17a    Figure:    1857   Ink and pencil sketch of Dobbo, Aru   Image

BM-As1935,1014.10    Miscellaneous:    1858   Woman's belt (waist) made of cane, rattan. Obtained by A.R.Wallace in Seram. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".

BM-Oc1935,1014.2    Miscellaneous:    1858   Figure, korwar, made of wood. Obtained by A.R.Wallace in Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".

BM-Oc1935,1014.4    Miscellaneous:    1858   Stick (with figure), charm made of wood, cotton cloth, vegetable fibre. Obtained at Dorey, New Guinea by A.R. Wallace. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father ...in 1859".

BM-Oc1935,1014.6    Miscellaneous:    1858   Shield (for korvar figure) made of wood. Collected at Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".

BM-Oc1935,1014.8    Miscellaneous:    1858   Scoop made of coconut shell. Obtained by A.R. Wallace at Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859". Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".

NHM-WP07.009    Printed:    1858   "On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. by Charles Darwin… and Alfred Wallace… Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell… and J. D. Hooker…" from The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society for August 1858 (read 1 July 1858); final proof or reprint sewn into brown paper cover labelled in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Species | Darwin ^ Wallace"; pp. [1]-62 with correction and additions in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink and a note on the back flyleaf in pencil in his hand, beginning "1860. Feb | After reading Mr Darwin's admirable work 'On the Origin of Species'…" Place: Ternate Moluccas Netherlands Indies Notes: When listed this was in an acid free envelope labelled in pencil by NHM library staff c2000 "1858 Lin. Soc. Paper | species - Darwin/Wallace | Box 3 Box file" .

CUL-Keynes.M.2.27[1]    Note:    1859--1860   Wallace A. R. Annotations in his copy of Darwin's Origin of species, the Keynes room at Cambridge University Library.

RGS-JMS.13.126    Note:    1861   "On the Trade of the Eastern Archipelago with New Guinea & its Islands" Published as S65.

NHM-WP02.001.004    Photo:    [1862]   Portrait of A. R. Wallace aged about 40? c 1862? Undated black and white photo approximately 14.5 cm x 9 cm showing Wallace standing, bearded and wearing spectacles, resting his left hand on the top of an elaborately carved wooded chair with velvet upholstery, a top hat upturned on the seat. Photographer unknown. Notes: Found among proof illustrations from A. R. Wallace's 1905 autobiography"My Life", when listed. There are no annotations and the photograph is not reproduced in the autobiography.

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-WP12.035.[02]    Printed:    1863   "Natural Theology", reprint or tract quoting a previously unpublished May 15, 1863 letter by Kingsley reprinted from the "Daily Graphic", re Darwinism and black moods; undated, 1 small folio, contained in envelope no 1 above when listed

RGS-JMS.8.33    Note:    1863   On the Physical Geography of the Malay Archipelago.