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WSPEC209 Periodical contribution: Baly, Joseph Sugar. 1878. Descriptions of new genera and species of Gallerucinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5) 2: 411-422. PDF

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WSPEC210 Periodical contribution: Baly, Joseph Sugar. 1878. Descriptions of a new genus and of new species of Halticinae [first part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5) 1: 312-322. PDF

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WSPEC240 Periodical contribution: Hewitson, William Chapman. 1878. Descriptions of twenty new species of Hesperidae from his own collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5) 1: 340-348. PDF

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WSPEC314 Periodical contribution: Chevrolat, A. 1878. Diagnoses de Diapérides. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2 (194) : 221-222. PDF

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

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NHM-WP17.012 Photo: 1878?--1900 1-3: Three small square photographic sepia prints, all annotated in pencil on the back in the same hand (A. R. Wallace's?); the first annotated "Deepdene, Frimley Green Surrey | W. J. Stilman [sic] | 28293", showing a house through trees; the second annotated "W. J. Stillman's grounds" | 28293", showing woods with bracken around the base of trees; the third annotated "W J Stillman's grounds" | 28293"showing trees surrounded by almost bare ground, with a post and wire fence and iron barred gate in the background from which leads a walking path partly edged with a rustic wooden fence. 4. Portrait photograph annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand W J Stillman" showing a man, apparently Stillman, aged about 55-60, with medium length white or grey hair; 3/4 profile looking towards the viewer's right; seated in an interior, holding a paper, wearing a short beard and moustache and dressed in a thick fur coat. William James Stillman, American journalist, artist, photographer and diplomat, married as his second wife the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali in 1871, the couple settling in Florence and dividing their time between England and Italy. He was the model for Merlin in the 1874 painting "The Beguiling of Merlin" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Stillman worked for the London Times as a young man and was interested in Spiritualism and in alleged manifestation of spirits during seances. Place: Frimley Green Surrey England Notes: Dates based on the apparent age of Stillman in the portrait and of his date of death. Photos of house and grounds were all folded inside a letter, WP1/8/130, letter from Williams to Mr Wallace (A. R. Wallace?), no date, when listed; the portrait was enclosed in a buff envelope marked in blue pencil on flap in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Photo of self" containing this and unrelated items, inside a 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 -". See letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 22 May 1899, mentioning Stillman (WP1/2/122). Sources for Stillman: Websites including http://www.artmagick.com/artists/stillman.aspx and http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Emerson_Celebration/Em_Con_80.html

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NHM-WP01.004 Correspondence: Wallace Annie née Mitten 1879--1903 Letters to Annie Mitten/Wallace: 13 letters and 2 postcards from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from Britain and Europe 1879-1903; 2 letters to Annie from Arabella B Buckley 1883. See also letters from A. R. Wallace to Annie Wallace in letters from America and Canada, WP1/5 Notes: The letters by A. R. Wallace were removed from general correspondence initially listed with ref WP1/19 including those in subject files labelled in WGW's? hand, almost certainly selected by or for James Marchant for use in writing "A. R. Wallace - Letters and Reminiscences" ( London 1916). The letters by Arabella Buckley were removed from a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, containing various apparently unrelated letters and other papers (old ref WP2/1).

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NHM-WP01.004.001 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet Isabel? [1879] Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Waldron Edge, Croydon, Tuesday evening, annotated in pencil in an unknown hand "May 1879", re mild weather; son William's cough; visit from George Silk, playing chess, visiting Stevens to play billiards; primula japonicus; reaction of kitten to new surroundings; asks for a letter from Violet. Place: Croydon England Notes: RECORD MODIFIED 22/7/03, 22/8/03, 15/9/03. OLD REF. WP1/19/2/1 and later WP1/21/1. This letter when received was in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "General - domestic &c" with one to William; these were almost certainly selected by or for James Marchant for use in writing "A. R. Wallace - Letters and Reminiscences" ( London 1916) and have been relocated.

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NHM-WP07.041.[04] Printed: 1879 Press cutting from "The Academy" 12 Apr 1879, pp. [326] -327 with 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"; 2 ff.

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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.

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NHM-WP07.055 Correspondence: Price Bonamy, Mallet Sir Louis 1879 Correspondence with J? Bonamy Price on Free Trade, Reciprocity and Louis Mallet, numbers 1-6 in cardboard cover with spine title "G Gray Birds of Aru Is New Guinea" in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand, labelled on front in blue pencil in WGW's? hand "Reciprocity &c Bonamy Price", comprising: WP7/55.01 to 07. Notes: In Large modern envelope labelled in R Wallace's hand "Correspondence with Myers Typed copies | Obits | Reciprocity Correspondence | Notes (for 'My Life'?)" with draft letter re Waterlow Park (but no obits) when listed- envelope discarded. Smith: S312. A Few Words in Reply to Mr. Lowe. Nineteenth Century 6: 179-181 (July 1879: no. 29).

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NHM-WP07.055.[06] Note: 1879 Ms on exercise book paper in A. R. Wallace's hand headed on first page " 'Reciprocity': A reply to Sir Louis Mallet, C.B." undated, last page[s] apparently missing; 4 folios, 4 numbered pages written on one side only.

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NHM-WP07.055.[07] Draft: 1879 Proof or offprint, pp [1]-3, of "A few words in reply to Mr. Lowe" by A. R. Wallace, annotated and corrected in A. R. Wallace's hand, with press cutting in three sections pasted onto back, headed in A. R. Wallace's hand "Daily News July 9th Finance Article".

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S296 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1879. Discussion [of paper on the Australasian-Pacific races of man by S.J.Whitmee]. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland 8: 367-368. Text Image PDF

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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

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WSPEC272 Periodical contribution: Deyrolle, Henri. 1879. Diagnoses de nouvelles especes de Brenthides. Petites nouvelles entomologiques 2 (213): 297-298. PDF

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WSPEC351.4 Book: Sharpe, R.Bowdler. 1879. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 4: Passeriformes Cichlomorphae Part I - Campophagidae and Muscicapidae. London: Trustees of the British Museum. PDF

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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".

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NHM-WP04.002 Note: [1880--1881] Undated plans of Nutwood cottage Godalming and sketch map of Hindhead road, Knoll Road and Sandy Lane area, Godalming, 5 sheets and envelope, comprising: 1. "Elevation - West front" in black ink on 1 sheet waxed linen; 2. "Elevation - South Front" ditto 3. "Bedroom Plan" (partly coloured) ditto 4. Plan of ground floor (untitled but with annotations ) in ink on brown greaseproof paper 5. Sketch map in pencil on similar but thinner paper of area for sale around Hindhead and Knoll roads and Sandy Lane; all writing in A. R. Wallace's hand; all folded. 6. Cream envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Plans of Nutwood cottage Godalming" Place: Godalming Surrey England Note: Folded many times and some deeply creased and dirty in places. They have been refolded on the original lines and need a larger container.

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NHM-WP06.004 Note: 1880--1881 Ms notes relating to and printed reviews of Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1880, "Island Life: Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates". (Macmillan & Co., London, Oct. 1880; / Harper & Brothers, New York, 1881, and later editions and reprint(s).