S502    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1894. The influence of previous fertilisation of the female on her subsequent offspring, and the effect of maternal impressions during pregnancy on the offspring: interim report. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 64: 346.   Text   Image

S721[2d.2]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. 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

S725[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image   PDF

S530a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1896. Letter on Britons. Aberystwyth Observer 8 October 1896: 2.   Text

NHM-WP01.002.132    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William, Fisher Mrs  [1896]   Post-script to a letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, (from Parkstone, Dorset?) undated, 1896? re proposed visit to Barnstaple area, North Devon, rather than Switzerland "next year". Place: Devon Dorset England Notes: Written on a small folded sheet of white paper. Addressee obvious from context. Originally dated 1905? based on position in bundle, but references to A. R. Wallace's holiday in North Devon in 1897, in letter to Violet dated 11 Jun 1897 (WP1/2/ 90) make 1896 more likely.

NHM-WP04.003.001    Photo:    [1897--1900]   Corfe View, A. R. Wallace's house at Parkstone, Dorset: sepia photographic print c. 1897? approximately 11 cm x 8.5 cm labelled on the bottom edge in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Corfe View", showing a view of a three storey brick house, apparently of the back, with a lower balconied wing on the right, an attached conservatory or glass-house in the foreground and two steeply gabled attic rooms with ogee shaped frames at the top of the windows. A bush or low tree is in front of a trellis on the right of the conservatory. The print is slightly out of focus. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? and possibly another hand in blue and lead pencil "Wanted (illegible word) Wednesday | 4466 | I | 26471 | Dorset". Date based on letters mentioning and from or to Corfe View. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Placed in secol sleeve 17/4/03 FORMERLY IN Miscellaneous papers of A. R. Wallace: WP2; In envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Kelly's Photos of Corfe View" when listed. Possibly photographed by (Mr?) Kelly.

NHM-WP17.013.[03]    Photo:    [1897--1899]   Small folder made from blue-green letter paper labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW'S? hand (or both) on one side "Photos | Darwins Statue | Stillmans House | &c" and on the other "Darwins Statue | The Museum - Oxford -"; when listed it enclosed the 2 photos of a statue of Charles Darwin above, a photograph of W J Stillman, and other unrelated photos, print and Ms, (Old refs WP3/53-62) which have been relocated. Notes: Dates based on a letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 1896 (WP1/2/77) and note of reminiscences of J D Hooker, Nature, 22 Jun 1899, at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/more_letters/mletters1_02.html

NHM-WP04.004    Note:    [1897--1900]   Papers re A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" at Broadstone, Dorset, including plans, elevations, sketched views, rough ground plans, photographs, postcards and accounts. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: Found in Box 4 of the material as delivered, incorrectly identified in broad box list as plans of Parkstone house. Identified from photograph of the house in A. R. Wallace's "My Life" vol.2; plans 1 and 2 dated from letters by A. R. Wallace to his children on the subject. Though the drawings have not title as such "Parkstone" on the sheet indicates A. R. Wallace's address at the time the plans were drawn up, not the address of the house to be built. Conservation: Plan 1, very damaged and brittle, 5; copy, in better condition but needs to be unfolded, 4; other pieces 2.

NHM-WP17.013.[01]    Photo:    [1897--1899]   Undated sepia photograph approximately 15 cm x 10.5 cm showing a profile view of a (white marble?) statue of Charles Darwin (in the Museum of Oxford?), bearded, bareheaded, wearing a cloak, looking slightly downward, standing with feet and hands crossed; above a (marine?) animal skeleton, on a plinth attached to the supporting column of an arch. Notes: Dates based on a letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 1896 (WP1/2/77) and note of reminiscences of J D Hooker, Nature, 22 Jun 1899, at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/more_letters/mletters1_02.html

BL-Add.Mss46418-46419    Draft:    1898   Autograph draft for "The Wonderful Century" (1898). Vols. V, VI (ff.249, 231). 'The Wonderful Century', first version published 1898. Insertions in the printed text suggest that this MS. was completed before 18 Feb. 1898. Preface, etc., index, and chapter 18, 'Vaccination a Delusion, its Penal Enforcement a Crime', are wanting; a note in Wallace's hand on 46419, f. 126, directs the printer to set up Chapter 18 from a pamphlet, presumably that produced by Wallace in 1897. Autograph draft showing revision and rearrangement by the author and printer's marks.

NHM-WP07.043.[04]    Printed:    1898   "Spiritualism and Social Duty" by A. R. Wallace; pamphlet, reprint from "Light" of his address to the International Congress of Spiritualists, 23 Jun 1898. See WP7/81 for another copy.

NHM-WP06.006.011    Photo:    [1898--1900]   Miscellaneous images related to A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) including defective and duplicate proofs, and rejected? photographs of subjects illustrated; comprising: 1.Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, undated, showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through a steep narrow gorge; apparently of the Aarschlucht but at different view from that reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar...' (Studies vol 1); possibly a reject: photographer probably Ananda Coomaraswamy.2. Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, apparently of the gorge of the Aarschlucht; a slightly darker copy of item 1 above 3. Photograph of a section of grooved and fissured cliff or rocky shore on card captioned in A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink "Glacial groovings near Barmouth." Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 16 cm, torn at top right corner, loosely mounted on card 16 cm x 20 cm; pencilled annotations including "Barmouth?" "base" and "from the front" in A. R. Wallace's hand can be seen on the back of the photo, other text appears to be hidden under glued section at the top. The mounting card is marked in pencil on the front above the photo "4" over an arrow and on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "12502- | Swan Sonnenschein o/n 459 | Tuesday". A similar photo attributed to "an unknown friend" illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets' (vol. 1, fig. 14). 4. Colour print approximately 22 cm x 16 cm, possibly from a from a hand-coloured photograph, of a sea cove between chalk cliffs with grassy slopes and two buildings in the foreground and a short sandy beach on which a number of small rowing boats have been drawn up, with others in the water, in the middle ground; printed caption on the bottom edge "10373. Flamborough North Sea Landing"; "Photochrom" printed faintly on the back at bottom right. Undated (c. 1900?) and unattributed. A different image of Flamborough illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets.' ( vol. 1, fig. 16, p. 84). 5. Sepia photo approximately 20.5 cm x 13 cm showing a lake surrounded by mountains, annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? or another's hand "Loch Avon and Cairngorm." Undated and unattributed; among other images in a brown paper envelope labelled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand "Photos &c for Studies" (i.e. A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social", London 1900) when listed and though not reproduced there, may have been considered as an illustration for one of the two articles on the Ice Age. 6. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing flat fields with drystone walling in front of a long escarpment; a low building in the right middle ground and a road with a low bridge and telegraph pole in the foreground. Annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand include "Wasdale Crag, | Shap | Roches Moutonée" and "4433". Stamped in purple on the bottom left "Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds" and in red on the right "Copyright." "Copyright" is also stamped in red on the right lower front of the picture. Undated. A different image of Wasdale Crag, attributed to Bingley, illustrates 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Fig 12, vol. 1). 7. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing trees in an undulating foreground and treeless hills and bluffs with some patches of snow, in the background. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Terminal Moraine | Inner Tongue | Middle Harbour Flat | Nr Appleby | 4408"; place probably Cumbria (given the stamp) but "Middle Harbour" and "Appleby" occur together with "moraine" in Cumbria, NZ and the USA. Stamped in purple on the bottom left "Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds. " and in red on the right "Copyright." Undated. Possibly considered for, but not published in, 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Vol. 1) where images of other terminal moraines occur. 8. Sepia photo loosely mounted on paper, image approximately 10 cm x 14 cm, showing three young women and three older men standing next to each other on short grass with an open hut with a thatched roof in the background. in row facing the camera; two of the women are naked to the waist, all three are wearing long wrapped skirts and have their long hair tied back; the men are darker skinned, with long shaggy hair, and are wearing loin-cloths; two carry tall bows and arrows, one in the centre carries a tall staff. The paper mount has "Veddahs - Ceylon" written on the lower margin in pencil in the same hand as that on the undated and unattributed photos of Veddahs reproduced in 'Affinities and Origin of the Australian and Polynesian Races' vol. 1, though this is not reproduced there.The hand is may be a variant of A. R. Wallace's or that of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy; see letter WP1/1/163, from A. R. Wallace to WGW 15 Dec 1898 with postscript from Annie Wallace re photos from Ceylon. 9. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned on the print "Port Darwin Native. 6[0]5."; head and naked upper torso portrait of a young Australian native man wearing a grass skirt and headband, seated, facing camera, with crossed arms; found when listed with item 10 below in a paper folder made from a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil "Australians" in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand; not published in "Studies" but other photos of Australian natives are and this may have been considered and rejected. 10. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned on the print " A Darling River Native. 6[9]6"; full length photograph of an old bearded Australian native man naked to the waist and holding a spear? in one hand and throwing stick? in the other; standing outside a wurly (native shelter) inside which a seated dog is partly visible; found when listed with item 9 above in a paper folder made from a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil "Australians" in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand; not published in "Studies" but other photos of Australian natives are and this may have been considered and rejected. 11. Paper folder labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Duplicate Proofs | Duplicates", (old ref WP2/16/34) made from folded proofsheet of black and white images of Sentinel Rock and Virgins's Tears waterfall, Yosemite National Park USA reproduced as figs 3 and 4 in "Studies Scientific and Social", containing 4 proof sheets with versions of 5 images reproduced in "Studies Scientific and Social" comprising "El Capitan" (fig. 2), two of King Charles' Bird of Paradise (Parotia carolae, fig. 63) one annotated "Pull to show tonehing" [sic; Toning?] and one "Duplicate", one of the Fern-bearing Bird of Paradise ( Pteridophora alberti, fig. 64), and a double page with images of a man and woman of Samoa (figs 57 and 58) with annotations including "3 Photographs returned to Mr Coles, Royal Geographical Socy 1.12.98". Other proofs of each of these images are in WP6/6/1 (re 'Inaccessible Valleys') WP6/6/6 (re 'The Polynesians and their Migrations' ) and WP6/6/7 (re 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants').

S551a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1898. The Burmese Lily (Lilium ochroleucum.). The Garden 54 (no. 1402, 1 Oct. 1898): 259.   Text   Image

S568a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1899. Is the Swedish Red Water Lily a variety of Nymphæa alba? The Garden 56 ( no. 1447, 12 Aug. 1899): 130.   Text   Image

S574aa    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1874. Letter [to Thomas Wilkinson Wallis, dated 20 April 1874]. In: Wallis, T.W. 1899. Autobiography of Thomas Wilkinson Wallis, sculptor in wood. Louth: J.W.Goulding & Son, pp. 181-182, plus drawing.   Text   Image

NHM-WP01.006    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel  1899--1910   Letters from Fred Birch: Letters and postcards from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace and an enclosed? photograph, comprising one letter from Liverpool 1899, 4 letters and 2 postcards from Brazil Jan-Dec 1910, 1 envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's or WGW's hand and one 1899 photograph of Fred Birch. Frederick Birch lived in Liverpool as a young man and may have been born there. He apparently met A. R. Wallace some time in the 1890's and later emigrated with his wife to Brazil, where he worked as a professional collector of natural history specimens c. 1910. No other information about him has been found. Place: Brazil Liverpool England

NHM-WP07.084.[02]    Printed:    1899   Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 2. "Journal of the Society for Psychical Research" no CLVII Vol IX, March 1899, front cover signed by A. R. Wallace and annotated in his hand " Podmore's replyÂ…", containing "Clairvoyance and Poltergeists", letter to the Editor by Frank Podmore in reply to A. R. Wallace, pp. 37-45, with pencil markings and comments in A. R. Wallace's hand in text and margins. Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.

NHM-WP07.084.[04]    Printed:    1899   Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 4. Loose front and back covers of a copy of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, No CLVI, Vol. IX, Feb, 1899, annotated on the front cover at the top in ink A. R. Wallace's hand "p. 22- (31?) Mr. Wallace reply to Mr. Podmore. | Duplicate. | Numerous cases of Clairvoyance, and Disturbances of various kinds" ; the inside back cover includes notices of forthcoming meetings, including the reading of a paper by Mary H Kingsley on apparitions in West Africa on Friday, 10 Mar . Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.

NHM-WP05.002    Legal:    [1900]   Legal document relating to the Land Nationalisation Society.

S582a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A.R. 1900. Letter to the editor [concerning the causes of the trend of population relocation from rural to urban settings]. The Morning Leader (London) no. 2659 (28 Nov. 1900): 4.   Text

NHM-WP06.008.020    Photo:    1900?--1900?   View of Nutwood Cottage, Godalming. Undated (c. 1900?) sepia photograph approximately 12.5 cm x 10 cm; annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's and another? hand include [cop] initials | 175 screen | 1 full page very outside measurement 3 3/4 x 6/ 3/8 | keep in cover". Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) vol. 2 facing p. 103, unattributed. Notes: Date based on letters re sale of/money from and dates when working on autobiography

NHM-WP04.004.004    Note:    [1901--1902]   Ground floor plan for cottage at Broadstone, in ink on white squared paper, with notes and instructions in A. R. Wallace's hand and apparently drawn by him. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

S595a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1901. Foreword [dated 18 April 1901]. In: Richardson, John. 1901. The education problem and its solution. London: Twentieth Century Press, Ltd., pp. 3-4.   Text   Image

NHM-WP02.006.005.06.[02]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1902--1916]   TS copy of the above with slight variations, 9 numbered and 1 (last) unnumbered folios typed on one side only with corrections and annotations in pencil and red ink including the number [of letters from each correspondent?] in WGW's? hand; last page, headed "Letters received by A.R. Wallace on his 90th birthday", is not present in the Ms version.3. List in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink headed "Missing letters to Dr A.R. Wallace from - " listing approximately 30 names in total divided into the categories Biologists, Physicists, Social Reformers &c., Authors, Journalists &c., Politicians, and Unclassified; 1 folio of lined blue exercise-book paper written on both sides. Notes: Most folios of the ms are folded, some are single, pages written on one side only. The typed version was found in box three and inserted here. PJL 19/6/03

NHM-WP07.087.[02]    Note:    [1902]   ND Empty undated (c 1902?) envelope annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand " Mss Review - | 'Eternalism' | McClures Mag.| £25" and in pencil in an unknown hand "Reviews". Notes: When listed was with unrelated papers in an annotated 1897 envelope now transferred to series WP18, Miscellanea (WP18/25).