S005    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1850. On the Umbrella Bird (Cephalopterus ornatus), "Ueramimbé," L.G. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 18 (23 July): 206-207.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP17    Note:    1850--1899   Miscellaneous Photographs and other images c1850-1899 and undated

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

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-WP06.006    Photo:    [1852]--[1905]   Photographic prints, proof illustrations and ms. notes relating to Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1900, "Studies Scientific and Social" (London 1900). Approximately 100 individual documents/images including duplicates; most undated, almost all with annotations including captions, directions for printers and figure numbers, in A. R. Wallace's and/or other hands. Notes: The publication is a series of essays on a variety of topics. Each "piece" in item WP6/6 consists of a number of papers relating to a specific essay: individual documents are described within a single piece-level description. Reference codes have been added to the documents in pencil in square brackets on the backs of photos but where possible on the front of ms and print. Speculative dates are based on dates of publication of "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) and A. R. Wallace's original essays, except where there is evidence of the date of original creation of an image. Roughly half the images and notes were found in an envelope labelled, probably in WGW's hand, "Photos &c for Studies". The string and envelope, which was filthy, torn and disintegrating at the touch, was discarded. Copies of some of these images and subjects closely related were scattered throughout three of the four original boxes including 80 proof illustrations loose in box 3 and a few in other folders/envelopes in boxes 2 and 3. All have been brought together for final listing including images which were not reproduced in the book but were so similar to those used that they were probably considered and rejected, though some may have been published elsewhere.

S012    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1853. On some fishes allied to Gymnotus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21 (12 July): 75-76.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP06.008.018.[02]    Photo:    [1853--1865]   Small envelope enclosing the above when listed, annotated in ink WGW's? hand "Chap XXIII Photo A.R.W. (?1865 - age 42)" and in faint pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "1853"

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.

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-WP19.24    Figure:    1854--1900   Drawing of brown Algae

NHM-WP18.004    Note:    [1854]--[1903]   Six folios of undated rough notes, apparently entomological, in pencil and ink in an unknown hand, and a (draft? ) letter, undated, to "Dear Sir " (A. R. Wallace?) from Ernest F Bates, with annotated envelope. Notes: First date based on A. R. Wallace's arrival in Malaya (but could be earlier), last date on the date of death of Frederick Bates, assuming E F Bates to be his son, but no information has been found on him.

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-WP19.01    Figure:    1855   "Aeschynanthus sp. Borneo Flowers brilliant crimson scarlet, tube yellow, leaves light green, calyx yel. green Leaves found with a ring of 8 pointed stipules?" Watercolour painting of a Aeschynanthus flower from Sarawak

NHM-WP19.20a    Figure:    1855   Watercolour painting of an orchid from Sadong, Sarawak, Borneo   Image

NHM-WP19.05a    Figure:    1855   Pencil sketch of a tree

NHM-WP19.06a    Figure:    1855   Pencil sketch of Tree, Borneo

NHM-WP19.10a    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Forest tree

NHM-WP19.14b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Leaves on tree branch. "Helemedan? Dyak" "tree section when cut at 7 feet from the ground" "Leaves alternate ovate smooth thin without stipules, boughs much branched, leaves crowded. Bark thin rather smooth, whitish surface crumbling off, stem much furrowed and angular. Deeply butressed - 200-250 feet"

NHM-WP19.18a    Figure:    1855   Sketches of Gonystylus tree fruit "Bua ramin. (Dyak)" "base", "vertical section of seed with large fleshy red arillus", "This arillus is much eaten by the orang utan. Leaves alternate without stipules ovate entire acute, coriaceous with parallel curved veins & minute dots.", "? Euphorbiaceous"

NHM-WP19.21a    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Areca gracilis

NHM-WP19.15a    Figure:    1855   Watercolour painting of a flowering Polyalthea tree in Sarawak. "Sarawak, Borneo Polyalthea sp. (Anonaceae)"   Image

NHM-WP19.07a    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Tree, "Sarawak Mar. 55/"