Wallace Online: Search Results

2461.

NHM-WP09.001.002 Note: 1867--1895? List in A. R. Wallace's? hand on four small account-book pages (1 folio) headed "Lectures" listing amounts paid for lectures with dates covering 1867 -1894 and places in England, Scotland and Ireland but not titles of lectures; not in strict chronological order; titles of earlier lectures are noted on one page. Place: England Ireland Scotland

2462.

WSPEC290 Book: Walker, Francis. 1868. Catalogue of the specimens of heteropterous-hemiptera in the collection of the British museum. Part III. London: British Museum PDF

2463.

NHM-WP17.011 Photo: 1868--1913 Large envelope labelled in WGW's? hand "Illustrations of Palm trees" containing two paper folders enclosing: 17 black and white illustrations mounted on paper, some interleaved with protective tissue, apparently all from engravings or woodcuts, most of or including palm trees, including a man riding a horse pulling a small two-wheeled carriage against a background of tropical gardens, by B. Mannfeld, captioned "Cubanische Volante", all captioned in German, most with annotations on the back in A. R. Wallace's hand, including "Cocos butyracea | Sketch from nature" on the back of "Am Magdalena | Guadua. Weinpalme | Lichtdruck v A .Frisch. Berlin", "Woodcut from a photograph (indifferent)" on the back of a scene captioned "Mexicanische Landschaft" and "Types of Quichua Indians | From photographs" on the back of "Typhen von Quichua-Indianern" by Mannfeld. 19 pieces; source not identified: NOT the illustrations used in A. R. Wallace's 1853 "Palm trees of the Amazon". Place: Ecuador Notes: Dates based on dates of Mannfeld and A. R. Wallace. The envelope also contained an undated "Punch" cartoon and undated watercolour of azaleas, when listed; see WP17/9 and WP17/10. Individual pieces have been numbered in pencil in square brackets WP17/11/1-17 but no individual piece records have been created at 28 Jan 2004.

2464.

S139 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1868. On birds' nests and their plumage; or the relation between sexual differences of colour and the mode of nidification in birds. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 37 (part 2: Sections): 97. Text Image PDF

2465.

WSPEC156 Periodical contribution: Sharpe, R.B. 1868. On two new or little-known kingfishers belonging to the genera Ceyx and Cittura. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 270-271, pl. 27. PDF

2466.

S140a Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1868. Brilliant meteor. Daily Telegraph 3 January 1868: 3. Text

2467.

WSPEC355 Periodical contribution: Sharpe, R. B. 1868. On the genus Ceyx. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 587-599. PDF

2468.

WSPEC360 Periodical contribution: Sharpe, R.B. 1868. On the genus Ceyx. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 587-599 PDF

2469.

NHM-WP17.004.006 Photo: 1868?--1868? View of trees and three tall tree trunks, probably California Redwood (Sequoia gigantea), two trunks in the foreground with a woman in bonnet and ankle-length dress seated apparently on an upholstered seat set into the base of the tree on the right, a lattice-like frame enclosing the mid-section of the trunk in the centre of the picture. Sepia photographic print approximately 21 cm x 31 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil " Not exceeding 5 5/8 | 3 1/2" with arrows indication dimensions. Annotated in an unknown hand in pencil "183 | 16348". No caption present. Possibly a Taber photo. Place: USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 49, p. 8, captioned "The 'Mother of the Forest' (Dead) Calaveras Grove." Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA, but possibly earlier.

2470.

S715.1German Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Der Malayische Archipel, die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels: Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe von Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Braunchweig: George Westermann.Volume 1. PDF

2471.

S715.2German Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Der Malayische Archipel, die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels: Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe von Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Braunchweig: George Westermann.Volume 2. PDF

2472.

S715[2d].2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. 2d edition. Image PDF

2473.

NHM-WP06 Note: [1869]--1913 Papers related to the writing and publication of books by A. R. Wallace, including Mss, printed proofs of text and illustrations, annotated photographs and drawings, printed reviews, rough notes and correspondence. First date is that of publication of first or only edition of work, dates in brackets those of the archived papers. WP6/1 1869 (nd) Papers re Malay Archipelago WP6/2 1870 (1871) Papers re Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection WP6/3 1876 (1876?) Papers re The Geographical Distribution of Animals... WP6/4 1880 (1880-81) Papers re Island Life WP6/5 1889 (1889?-1901?) Papers re Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection… WP6/6 1900 (1887?-1900?) Papers re Studies Scientific and Social WP6/7 1903 (1904? Papers re Man's place in the Universe WP6/8 1905 (1904-1906?) Papers re autobiography My Life WP6/9 1907 (1907) Papers re Is Mars Habitable? WP6/10 1910 (1911) Papers re The World of Life WP6/11 1913 (1913) Papers re Social environment and moral progress WP6/12 1889-1899 Readers' correspondence and related papers

2474.

NHM-WP12.005 Printed: 1869 Pamphlet "British Association for the Advancement of Science. Exeter Change for the British Lions. Edited by Snug the Joiner" [J C Brough] (London 1869); satirical history, papers and address to the President of the BAAS, including "The Development Hypothesis ... by General Fitz Müddler" pp. 10-12, with a passage on page 12 describing Wallace ("Mr Darwin's alter ego") marked by a pencil line in the margin; 30 pages; approx 12 cm x 15cm; pages 19-22 inclusive have been cut out. Notes: A pencilled list of items in box 2 possibly in Richard Wallace's hand (not EB) was found loose near this work: placed in an envelope marked [for Richard Wallace 12 June] in the box containing old ref WP2/25 onwards. PJL 3/6/2003

2475.

WSPEC305 Book: Butler, A. G. 1869. Catalogue of diurnal Lepidoptera described by Fabricius in the collection of the British museum. London. PDF

2476.

WSPEC307 Note: 1869 Notice on the discovery at Sarawak in Borneo of the fossilized teeth of rhinoceros and of a cervine ruminant PDF

2477.

S142aa Book contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Discussion. In: Huxley, T.H. On the distribution of the races of mankind, and its bearing on the antiquity of man. Transactions of the Third Session of the International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., pp. 103-104. Text Image PDF

2478.

S143a Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Discussion [regarding the brightness of color of beetles in the East Indies]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1869: iv. Text Image PDF

2479.

S143b Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Discussion. In: Jenner Weir, J. O the protective adaptations of caterpillars. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1869: vii (vi-vii). Text Image PDF

2480.

WSPEC197 Periodical contribution: Gray, John Edward. 1869. Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous and edentate mammalia in the British Museum. London: British Museum PDF