NHM-WP13.001    Note:    1871--1913   Small cardboard folder apparently made from the cover of a book or notebook from which the original pages have been removed. Two titles on the spine in ink in A. R. Wallace's and an unknown hand, obscured by torn paper: "Bates on Delta of Amazon. Wall. on R Wagr . . ." (remainder torn away) and, upside down relative to this and deleted, "Asa Gray. Review of D..." (remainder torn away). Titled on front cover in in in A. R. Wallace's hand, over illegible text in blue pencil: "Papers and Pamphlets by Carpenter and Parallax - also Hampden - Flat-Earth Man!" Contents: Printed papers and pamphlets including material on A. R. Wallace's acceptance of John Hampden's challenge to demonstrate the curvature of the earth and subsequent dispute.

S205    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1872. The President's address. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1872: li-lxxv.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP03.003    Notebook:    [1873]--[1913]   Small lined and ruled notebook with "Addresses" faintly visible on front cover and the remains of a brass clasp on back and front boards; containing very approximately personal and corporate names and addresses in A. R. Wallace's hand, with a few printed address lists and labels pasted onto some pages and onto the inside front cover, and lists of people to whom various A. R. Wallace publications or letters were sent (detailed below). Addresses are in alphabetical order by name but divided into categories, (by year?) so that there is more than one section A-Z. Addresses pasted in include a list in newsprint of newspaper offices in London, on the flyleaf underneath a list in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Paintings". Twelve pages at the back of the book contain gardening notes written upside down relative to the front pages and beginning on the last page of the book. These are a calendar of flowering plants at the Dell, April-May 1873 and 1875, (143-141) list of Cape (South African) heaths each with botanical name, description and time of flowering, (pp. 139-131) and a diagram of plantings c. 1889-1890 (p. 130). A loose business card from Parsons & Hayter, Builders and Estate Agents of Swanage and Wareham, is enclosed between pp 63 and 64. The notebook is approximately 16cm x 9cm, approximately 120 pages, of which 12 between the address and gardening notes section are blank. Notes which are not, or not simply, address lists are: p. 19: Names: Dec 1879, written to about result of Epping Forest Competition. p. 20: Names: To send nationalisation circular (list undated) pp. 39-40: Names: Land Nationalisation bound and paper copies sent to.(At the top of p. 40 is a note of "Diagrams on black calico by Geo. A. Rea [sic]") p. 41: includes a list of Guildford newspapers. p. 42: includes a list of gardeners pp. 43-44: Probable income during 1886-7-8,and Fixed outgoings p.45: Names: Large photos (Portrait?) sent to. pp. 46-47: American addresses (other American addresses occur in the alphabetical sections) p. 48: Miscellaneous U. K names and addresses not in alphabetical order, including V.C. special committee of London Society for the abolition of vaccination. pp. 49-50: Names: Darwinism sent to p. 50; Names: L. N. (Land Nationalisation) Address (sent to?) p. 54: Names: "Expressiveness of Speech", copies sent to p. 55: Names: "Gorge of the Aar", sent to p. 76: includes names: Copies of L.N. address 1895 "Unemployed" sent to p. 79: includes names: Copies new edition of "Island Life" July 1902 sent to p. 106: includes names: Copies of "Is Mars Habitable" sent to p. 108: Names: "Is it peace or war" copies of Public Opinion Aug 14, 1908 sent to Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Notes: I have numbered the pages in pencil in square brackets from [1] to [143] beginning with the inside front flyleaf . P J Lucas Feb 2003. 5. Extremely poor condition, broken back, boards loose, flyleaf and some pages at front loose. This is likely to be a very important source of information and conservation should be high priority. PJL 2003

S156    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1873. Introduction. In: Smith, Frederick. 1873. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidæ of India and the Eastern Archipelago. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 11: 285-302.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP07.043.[01]    Printed:    1873   Press cutting, letter to the Editor, "Daily News" headed "The evils of the drink traffic and their remedy" annotated at the top in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "?date 1873?" and "A.R.W."

NHM-WP07.042.[02]    Printed:    1874   Offprint or proof of Notices of Books from an unnamed journal (Spectator 47: 535-536 (25 April 1874: no. 2391: see Smith S 242) vol. IV, N.S., Apr 1874, pp 229- 232, containing an anonymous review of George St. Clair, "Darwinism and Design; or Creation by Evolution" (London 1873) annotated on first page in WGW's? hand in pencil "Review by A.R.W." 2 ff.

Snumberforthcoming    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A.R. 1874. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499.

S248c    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A.R. 1875. Letter to C.A. Wilson on The Antiquity of Man. In: Anonymous. 1875. Adelaide Philosophical Society. South Australian Register no. 8871 (21 April 1875): 5.   Text   Image   PDF

S252b    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1875. River scene, Java. In Walter B. Woodbury ed. Treasure spots of the world. A selection of the chief beauties and wonders of nature and art. London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, n.p.   Text   Image

NHM-WP06.003    Note:    [1876]   Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1876, "The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface" (London 1876)

NHM-WP08.001    Printed:    1876--1900   Four botanical pamphlets by Richard Spruce 1866-1887, three with annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand (c. 1907?), one botanical work by Matthew B Slater 1906; printed obituary notice of Spruce by Isaac Bayley Balfour 1900, with passages marked (by A. R. Wallace?) and printed memoir of George Bentham by J D Hooker, 1898. Notes: Last date based on the fact that A. R. Wallace was working on his edition of Spruce's "Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes" in 1906 and 1907.(See letters from A. R. Wallace on the subject, mainly 1907). All the pamphlets have been put into one acid-free envelope but should probably go into individual acid-free containers. PJL 15/4/03

S257    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1877. Biology. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 46 (part 2: Sections): 100-119.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP09.003.001    Note:    1877?   Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Distribution of Animals as indicating Geographical Changes", probably mss of or based on "The Comparative antiquity of Continents, as indicated by the Distribution of Living and Extinct Animals", read RGS meeting June 1877 ( See Shermer, p. 367); 15 numbered folios, each about half a sheet of blue lined foolscap paper; in an annotated envelope labelled in an unknown hand in pencil "A2", in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand (Crossed out in pencil) " Lecture on Ancient Continents &c" and in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Bristol Halifax spring 1878 | Cardiff Bradford autumn 1878 | "Distribution of Animals as indicating Continental Changes"; annotated faintly in pencil on back in A. R. Wallace's hand "The Forest Fund Committee have issued their 7th Report." Notes: Also in the envelope when listed was a modern printed label "Manuscript lecture on Distribution… 15 sheets with dates and places given", presumably a NHM library label used for display at some period before listing; label destroyed October 2003. Ms Needs to be unfolded.

NHM-WP07.052    Note:    1878?--1899.04.10   Ms and TS on the subject of gunpowder storage

NHM-WP07.041.[05]    Printed:    1879   Press cutting from "The Academy" 19 Apr 1879, p. 351-352, annotated at the top of p 352 in WGW's? hand "Article on Haeckel | Wallace", containing part two of a review by A. R. Wallace of an English translation (1879?) of Ernst Haeckel, "The Evolution of man: A popular exposition of the principle points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny"; 1 f.

S297    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1879. Discussion [of paper on New Guinea tribes by W. G. Lawes]. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland 8: 377.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP07.053    Note:    1879?   Ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, on colour sense in and colours of animals, comprising: 1. Note headed "Colour sense (Mr Henry T Fincke [sic])". 2. Ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Chapter IX ", listing page references with comments, beginning " p. 149 Butts. [butterflies?] & Humming Birds - most brilliant" . Notes: Both in very small writing on one side of paper only, sheets octavo size. Possibly notes for "Colour in Nature [review by A. R. Wallace of The Colour Sense, Its Origin and Development; An Essay in Comparative Psychology by Grant Allen, 1879]". Nature 19: 501-505 (3 April 1879: no. 492). (Smith: S304). Henry T Finck was the author of a letter to the Editor in the same volume, p. 340 (Feb 13, 1879) dated Berlin, 8 Feb, headlined "Intellect in Brutes".

NHM-WP07.041.[06]    Printed:    1880   Press cuttings from "The Academy" 23 Oct 1880, one section ( from p. 294?) headed "Science. | The Emotions and Senses of Insects" a review by A. R. Wallace of A H Swinton, "Insect variety: Its Propagation and Distribution…" (London? 1880?), folded , with halves (accidentally?) glued together at the bottom, continued on large cutting, p. 295 -296

S334a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1880. Wallace and Darwin. In: Sargent, Epes. 1880. The scientific basis of spiritualism. Boston: Colby & Rich, pp. 360-361.   Text   Image

NHM-WP10.003    Note:    1880--1897   Cardboard cover with spine title "Adaptive colouration" in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand, front title "Notes on examinations" in extremely faint red pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand, with "1891-97" in ink over blue pencil below this, containing annotated printed elementary and and advanced Physiography examination papers and notes 1880 to 1890 (excluding 1887). Most annotations appear to be in A. R. Wallace's hand. The contents, 47 folios, are as follows: Folios 1 to 33 (including folder):.Folder made from a postal cover of a journal from the Entomological Society of London, stamped and postmarked (18)80?, titled on the opposite side in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Physiography 1880" with "to 1890" added in pencil, followed by a list of examinations papers by year, in ink. An undated printed and annotated examination paper is pasted onto the inside surface. The folder contains 32 loose folios which include printed physical geography examination papers 1880 to 1889 inclusive with the exception of 1887, and notes in A. R. Wallace's hand on the questions and answers, and on examination (board) meetings. Folios 34 and 35:Physiography examination paper 1891, elementary and advanced, 1 folio print, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folios 36 and 37.Two folios of ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, on the 1892 physiography exam questions. Folios 38 and 39: Physiography examination paper 1893, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folios 40 and 41: Physiography examination paper 1894, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folios 42, 43 and 44: Physiography examination paper 1895, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folio 45: Physiography examination paper 1896. Folios 46 and 47: Physiography examination paper 1897, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: For convenience of location the loose papers have been numbered in pencil in square brackets but not recorded as separate pieces. In this case, because the file is relatively large, to save time enclosures have not been treated as sub-sets of the enclosing document, but numbers are sequential. P J Lucas Feb 2003

S322a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1881. On the peculiar species of the British fauna and flora. Proceedings and Transactions of the Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club 1881 (20 February 1878 to 19 January 1881): 58-60.   Text   Image

S345a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1881. Letter [to Mrs. T. L. Nichols, dated 16 July 1881]. In: Nichols, T.L. 1881. A memorial to the Home Secretary in behalf of Mrs. Susan Willis Fletcher, a spritualist, unjustly condemned to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour: with important testimony excluded upon the trial, and proofs of perjuries committed by the prosecutrix. London: Printed for private circulation, pp. 44-45.   Text

NHM-WP07.052.[01]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1882   Envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Godalming, postmarked from The Admiralty, 22 July 1882, annotated in blue in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's ? Hand "Storage of Gunpowder", containing pieces 1-4 and 6 when listed

NHM-WP17.004    Photo:    1882--1887   Six sepia photographs of landscape in the United States, mounted on board; four captioned "Taber Photo, San Francisco", one by C H James, 1882 and one without photographer or source. Some of these were reproduced in volume 2 of "My Life" by A. R. Wallace, in his description of his travels in America in 1886 and 1887. Notes: Reference codes have been added on the backs in pencil in square brackets. The photographs were enclosed in a brown cardboard folder with the label "Westcots" crossed through in blue pencil next to "Doveshill" faintly visible in blue pencil: destroyed 28 Jan 2004. P J Lucas

NHM-WP02.004    Note:    1882--[1889]   Honours, Awards and Membership Certificates: Certificates of membership of societies and papers related to honorary degrees and awards. See also letters re award of Order of Merit WP1/8/72 and 73, and references in letters from A. R. Wallace to William and Violet Wallace in WP1/1 and WP1/2.