Wallace Online: Search Results

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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"

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

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

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WSPEC097 Periodical contribution: Stevens, Samuel. 1856. [Extract from a letter received from Mr Wallace written from Lombock]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (new series) 4: 34. Text Image PDF

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WSPEC098 Periodical contribution: Stevens, Samuel. 1856. [Exhibition of remarkable insects sent from Borneo by Mr Wallace]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (new series) 4: 4. Text Image PDF

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NHM-WP01.003.064 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel, Sims Thomas, Sims Frances née Wallace, [1856] Part-letter (last 2 pages) from A. R. Wallace to Thomas or Fanny Sims, initialled A. R. Wallace, from Singapore? 1856? ; re transmission and payment for "Home News"; (Sims's) advertisements for photographic portraits on enamel opal glass and paper; insects and box of heavy clothes sent home; plan to visit California; funny Chinese pictures. Place: California USA Singapore Malaya Notes: Not listed in contents. One folio. First page(s) of text missing. Addressee unknown

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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.

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WSPEC074 Periodical contribution: Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 1: 141-175 . Text Image PDF

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WSPEC083 Periodical contribution: Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the homopterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr.A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 1: 82-100, pls. 3-4 [Read 6 May 1856.]. Text Image PDF

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WSPEC084 Periodical contribution: Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr.A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 1: 4-39, pls. 1-2 [Read 15 January 1856.]. Text Image PDF

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WSPEC085 Periodical contribution: Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr.A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 1 (3): 105-136, pl.VI. Text Image PDF

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NHM-WP01.003.062 Note: [1856] Undated MS in ink and pencil A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "The Chinaman at Singapore" with brief notes re the typical Chinese merchant, shopkeeper, planter and coolie, and Kling (Chettiar) tradesmen. Text Image

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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

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NHM-WP19.16 Figure: 1856--1860 Ink and pencil sketch "Sugar Palm. Celebes" Image

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

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WSPEC133 Periodical contribution: Pascoe, Francis Polkinghorne. 1856. Descriptions of new genera and species of Asiatic longicorn Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (n.s.) 4: 42-50, pl. 16. PDF

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WSPEC192 Periodical contribution: Gray, John Edward. 1856. On a new species of squirrel (Sciurus macrotis) from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1856 (11 November): 341, pl. XLVI PDF

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WSPEC074rep Periodical contribution: Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie, 19: 361-398. PDF

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WSPEC267 Periodical contribution: White, Adam. 1856. Descriptions of coleopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, hitherto apparently unnoticed. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 2) 20: 211-215. PDF

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WSPEC099 Periodical contribution: Stevens, Samuel. 1857. [Exhibition of a box of Lepidoptera taken at Sarawak by Mr Wallace]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (new series) 4: 38. Text Image PDF