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NHM-WP17.003 Photo: 1892--1892? Photographic print (by Thomas Sims?) pasted onto card, of a letter signed Fred? A Eaton? Secretary, from the Royal Academy of Arts to Oscar O Junck, from London, 14 Dec 1892, granting his request for the production of a duplicate of the gold medal obtained by him in 1881.The card is stamped on the back "Sims | 70, Lillie Road | West Brompton."

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NHM-WP01.003 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel 1893--1904 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893: Letters, 1835-1893, to and from A R Wallace and other members of his family and friends, with related papers. Letters 1835-1869 were filed together when listed in a ring binder with a contents list in an unknown hand (WGW's?) headed "Old letters to and from A. R. Wallace and other members of his family". Some undated letters and fragments which were at the back of the binder are not included in this contents list. The list is preceded by notes on A. R. Wallace's whereabouts at various dates. Correspondents include H W Bates, G Silk, Richard Spruce and members of Wallace's family. Letters are arranged by date except for a few later letters found among apparently unrelated papers, which have been added out of sequence at the end of the list. Place: Amazon Malaya Notes: The Contents list is of 58 letters, 1835-1869, on 3 folios each written on one side only in an unknown hand. Each letter in the Contents list is numbered and gives author, correspondent and month and year date. They are in chronological order with the exception of one outlier at the end of the list. Some undated letters and fragments which were at the back of the binder are not included in this contents list. Almost all letters have markings (underlining, brackets, or deletions) mostly in blue pencil, possibly by A. R. Wallace but possibly by his son or daughter, by James Marchant, or another. Because these are so common they have not been noted except where apparently related to annotations or where deletion obscures text.When acquired by the NHM these papers were in a maroon "Perry & Co" brand cardboard spring binder 28cm x 23.5 cm, with letters in individual (glassine?) envelopes.There were also loose notes made by NHM staff who have handled the material (personal information from Emma Bennett, assistant Librarian, General Library, Nov. 2002). Individual letters and pages have been removed from the album and placed in acid-free melinex folders or envelopes for protection. NB THE LARGEST FOUND IS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR ALL UNFOLDED LETTERS. Some of the letters are in extremely poor condition, torn, with sections missing, dirty and foxed. The folios on which the contents are listed are brittle and foxed. Loose notes have been destroyed but as an aid to the staff who wrote them replaced with the same text written on acid free paper. The contents are also noted in the records of the pieces to which they refer. I recommend destruction of the album and glassine envelopes, as of virtually no historical value. The album is lined with an extremely acidic, brittle cardboard and the glassine envelopes are dirty and in most cases too small to hold the unfolded letters. At present they are in the large grey phase box labelled in pencil "WP1/3, together with the disbound letters. P J Lucas, 17/12/02 .Notes associated with the letters were written by Emma Bennett, assistant librarian NHM (identified by her) except in one case where a note was written by Sandra Knapp, botanist, NHM, author of "Footsteps in the Forest", on Wallace. Her hand was also identified by Emma. PJL 19/12/02. RECORD MODIFIED 13/10/03: A separate acid free envelope of papers was inserted between the album covers and is labelled "Listed as ' 6 sheets of notes relating to Darwin comments on island life'. Possibly by Darwin?". This is in fact seven folios of comments on A. R. Wallace's "Island Life" in Charles Darwin's hand; it has been relocated to Papers re publications: books by A. R. Wallace: 'Island Life': WP6/4 in new series WP6.

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NHM-WP06.006.001 Photo: [1893]--1900 Photographic images illustrating 'Inaccessible Valleys', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch. 1, pp. 1-27, all black and white, comprising: 1. Unnumbered proof sheet? annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Govetts Leap", approx. 19 cm x 14.5 cm with central image approx. 12 cm x 9 cm, annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand in red ink "Govetts Leap", showing mountain ranges in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia viewed from a clifftop on which two? women with backs to camera are seated on the right of the picture. Reproduced in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social" (London 1900) vol. 1, fig. 6, p. 15, captioned "View from Govett's Leap" Undated, attributed to Admiral Maclear. ( J P Maclear?) 2. Photographic print? approx. 14 cm x 18 cm on card approx. 17 cm x 22.5 cm titled "North Dome and Washington Column", reproduced as fig. 7, p. 23. 3. Seven proof sheets? the first six approx. 19 cm x 14.5 cm with central images approx. 12 cm x 9 cm; held together with brass clip, sheets numbered, titled and in some cases annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand, showing figs 1 -7 inclusive comprising : 1. The Water Slide, Doone Valley 2. El Capitan, (Yosemite valley, California USA) 3. Sentinel Rock ditto 4. Virgin Tears Waterfall ditto 5. Govett's Leap, Blue Mountains NSW, Australia 6. The view from Govett's leap ditto, annotated "from Vice Admiral Maclear's album" 7. The North Dome, Yosemite Valley (sheet approx. 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm with image approx. 14 cm x 10 cm) Place: Australia Devon England California USA

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NHM-WP06.006.002 Photo: [1893]--1900 Annotated photos and proof sheets of images illustrating 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets.', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch. IV, pp. 59-93, figs. 9-22, all black and white except where noted, 19 in total comprising: 1. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 9 cm x 5.5 cm of a boulder-strewn plain, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Fig. 1.| Surface of part of Great terminal Moraine" ( Fig. 9 in vol. 1, unattributed.) 2. Ditto with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 7 cm of a lake with mountains in the background and a house or farm buildings in a boulder-strewn landscape in the foreground, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Fig 2" (Fig. 10, vol. 1, unattributed, captioned "Moraines at Easedale Tarn".) 3. Photographic print approx. 21 cm x 15.5 cm apparently used for the production of Fig. 10 above; black and white but with clouds behind mountains painted in watercolour in white with touches of yellow (or dirt); annotations on the back in pencil include "16585 | 098 E | S | 93 mm | Easedale Tarn. Grasmere." 4. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 5.5 of large boulders among vegetation including three upright leafless tree or grass stems. annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil "Fig. 3" (Fig. 11, vol.1, captioned "Roches Moutonées in Idaho, USA", attributed US Geological Survey.) 5. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 10 cm x 7 cm showing five men seated in a rocky landscape with a mallet in the foreground, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Fig. 4". (Fig 12, vol. 1, captioned "Striated Rock Surface at Wasdale Crag", attributed Godfrey Bingley.) 6. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing a young boy in flat cap and short trousers seated in a rocky landscape, annotated in pencil in ARW's hand " Fig 5." (Fig. 13 in vol. 1, captioned "Rock Groovings at Barmouth", attributed Percy F Kendall.) 7. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing grooved and fissured rocks, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Fig. 6". (Fig. 14 in vol 1. captioned "Rock Groovings Near Barmouth" attributed to "an unknown friend". 8. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing a landscape with a road and grassy plain in the foreground and hills in the far background with a windmill? cairn? at middle right, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Fig. 6 [sic]. (Fig. 15 in vol. 1, captioned "Moraine at Specton", attributed Mr Kendall.) 9. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx 15 cm x 10.5 cm showing chalk cliffs at the edge of the sea, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Fig. 7 | Scandinavian Ice sheet. Terminal Moraine". (Fig 16, vol 1, captioned "Boulder clay on chalk, Flamborough Head", attributed Mr Bingley. 10. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx 10 cm x 7 cm showing sharply peaked cliffs with stony beach in the foreground, no annotations. (Fig. 17, vol. 1, captioned "Boulder Clay on Upper Oolite, Yorkshire", attributed Mr Bingley). 11. Photographic print 15.5 cm x 11 cm mounted on slightly larger card; annotations on the back in pencil in an unknown hand include "12503- | Swan Sonnenschein [o/n] 459 | [Tuesday]" and on the front in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Glacial Drift on Oolite, Yorkshire coast." The purple stamp of Godfrey Bingley, Thornichurst, Headingley, Leeds, is faintly visible showing through from the back at top left of the print. Apparently used to produce fig. 17, vol. 1. 12. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 5 cm x 5 cm showing a boulder with inclusions, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Fig. 9" (Fig 18, vol. 1, captioned "A Scandinavian Boulder found in Yorkshire", attributed Mr Kendall. 13. Sepia photographic print approx. 5 cm x 5 cm showing a boulder with inclusions, apparently used to produce fig. 18, vol. 1. 14. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 10 cm x 7 cm showing a dark boulder perched on a smaller pale one in a landscape with mountains in the far background; annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil "Fig. 10. (Fig. 19 in vol 1, captioned "Silurian Erratic on Limestone, Ingleborough", attributed Mr Kendall.) 15. Sepia photo approximately 15.5 cm x 11 cm mounted on slightly larger card, showing a large dark boulder among smaller limestone rocks in a field with rolling hills in the distance. Captioned on the card in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Erratic - Millstone Grit on Limestone." Faint pencil annotations in the same hand are on the top edge of the card and the purple stamp of Godfrey Bingley, Thornichurst, Headingley, Leeds, is faintly visible at top and bottom of the print, showing through from the back. Apparently used to produce fig. 19, vol. 1. 16. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image approx. 10 cm x 7 cm showing a large boulder perched on the edge of a slope with mountains in the distance, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Fig. 11 | Perched block in Pass of Llanberris". (Fig. 20 in vol 1 captioned "Perched block in the pass of Llanberris", attributed Mr Kendall. 17. Sepia photo approximately 15.5 cm x 11 cm mounted on slightly larger card, showing a large boulder perched on the edge of a slope with mountains in the distance. Captioned on the card in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Perched block, Pass of Llanberris" and in pencil "2 1/2" with pencil markings. Annotated on the back of the card in pencil in an unknown hand "12506- | Swan Sonnenschein [o/n?] 459 | [Tuesday?]". Apparently used to produce fig. 20 in vol. 1. 18. Small proof sheet? or part of one with woodcut or engraved image initialled "AF 1888" approx. 10 cm x 7 cm showing a large rock perched on smaller ones, annotations in pencil and ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand include " 'From "Falsans du Periode Glaciaux" p. 77' and "Fig. 12. | Perched Block, near Monthey, Bas Valais". (Fig. 21, vol. 1, captioned "Perched Block, near Monthey, Bas Valais"; attributed to Falsan.) 19. Small proof sheet? or part of one with woodcut or engraved image initialled "[L. S] 1888" showing a large rock perched on two smaller upright ones in a landscape with hills in the far distance and a goatherd or shepherd seated nearby, annotated in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Fig. 13. Perched block - 5 miles N.W. of Chambery. (Triassic Brascia)". (Fig. 22, vol. 1, captioned "Perched block near Chambery", attributed Falsan. Place: Cumbria Yorkshire England Wales France USA Notes: 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets' was first published in "Fortnightly Review", Nov 1893. I have numbered each image in pencil near the top edge in square brackets from WP6/6/2 (1) to (19), and on the proofs but not photos have added the figure number as it was published, in square brackets at the bottom. PJL 9 Dec 2003.

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NHM-WP12.013 Printed: 1893 Reprint, "Animal Life in East Greenland" by H W Fielden, from The Zoologist, Feb 1893; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "From the writer"; 1 folio print.

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S471 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1893. President's address, 1893: The conditions essential to the success of small holdings. Report of the Land Nationalisation Society 1892-3: 15-23.

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S488b Book contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1893. Letter [to Alexander Milton Ross]. In: Ross, Alexander Milton. 1893.Memoirs of a reformer. Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Company, pp. 270-271. Text Image

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S472a Periodical contribution: Wallace, A.R. 1893. Dr. A. Russel Wallace and the BFA. The Social Problem, Organ of the British Freeland Association June 1893: 29-30. Text

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WSPEC194 Periodical contribution: Thomas, Oldfield. 1893. On some new Bornean Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 11: 341–347 PDF

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WSPEC351.21 Book: Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 21: Columbae, or pigeons. London: Trustees of the British Museum. PDF

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WSPEC351.22 Book: Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. 1893. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 22: Game birds. London: Trustees of the British Museum. PDF

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NHM-WP17.008 Photo: 1893?--1893? Ten undated photographic images of geological features or landscape, with annotated envelope. Notes: Dates of some inferred from period when A. R. Wallace was in Switzerland. No source or publication identified, but all are similar to images reproduced in articles on geology in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" vol. 1 (1900) and may have been considered for publication there or reproduced in the original journal or newspaper publications (not seen).

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NHM-WP17.008.002 Photo: 1893?--1893? Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm, annotated on the back in ink in an unknown hand " 'corrugated' basalt, oelberg | Siebengebrige". Showing a cliff face of basalt columns leaning to the viewer's left, with a man in a dark suit and hat standing in the left foreground. (Siebengebrige mountains, West Germany). Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Germany Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed. The hand is on the back of other photos. It is NOT that of William Mitten (checked against a letter of his).

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NHM-WP17.008.003 Photo: 1893?--1893? Black and white photographic print approximately 10 cm x 7.5 cm, showing a large boulder against the sky, balanced on an almost smooth rock surface which slopes towards the viewer. There are mountains in the background on the left and rock surface sloping up to the right. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand " Perched rock - glaciated Gabbro | Skye." and (possibly in another hand) " 838/2 | no 6". Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Skye Scotland Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

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NHM-WP17.008.004 Photo: 1893?--1893? Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm showing a distant mountain range, with trees or shrubs in the foreground. Annotated on the back in ink in the same unknown hand as that on the photo of corrugated basalt at Siebengebrige and other photos in WP17/8 "Views from Puy Nugere, Auvergne." (Puy de la Nugere is an extinct volcano). Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Auvergne France Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

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NHM-WP17.008.005 Photo: 1893?--1893? Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm showing a distant mountain range against a cloudy sky, with closer rounded wooded hills in the foreground. Annotated on the back in ink in the same unknown hand as that on the photo of corrugated basalt at Siebengebrige and other photos in WP17/8 "Puy de Dome, (and Puy Pariou on right) from Gravenoire, Auvergne." Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Auvergne France Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

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NHM-WP17.008.006 Photo: 1893?--1893? Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm showing several levels of upright basalt columns, with a slack cable and post fence and a (mining?) truck on a railway track in the middle ground. Annotated on the back in ink in the same unknown hand as that on the photos of corrugated basalt at Siebengebrige and others in WP17/8 "Basalt, Dattenburg. | Siebengebrige." Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Germany Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

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NHM-WP17.008.007 Photo: 1893?--1893? Undated black and white photographic print approximately 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing part of a lake between slightly rolling wooded or grassy hills in the foreground and a long almost flat-topped slope in the background. Faint pencil outline on the back with "upper lake" written in A. R. Wallace's? hand on the lake area and "dam" written in the foreground. The scene is near Lough Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland (see WP17/8/8). Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Ireland Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

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NHM-WP17.008.008 Photo: 1893?--1893? Black and white photographic print approximately 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing a wooded or grassy bluff with a distant flat-topped cliff or mesa in the background and grassy hilltop and pyramid-shaped rock in the foreground. A man wearing a cap is just visible near the rock to the viewer's right. This is a closer view of part of the scene shown in the photograph of "upper lake" (WP17/8/7). An outline sketch of the scene is in pencil on the back with features marked in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Erratic" | "Moraine" | "up Lake" | "Dam" | "between Upper & Lower Lough Bray co. Wicklow." Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Ireland Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht " when listed.

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NHM-WP17.008.009 Photo: 1893?--1893? Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm showing a rock surface with plants in the background, a flat area in the foreground and smooth rounded hollows in the middle ground and to the viewer's left, with several large rounded boulders to the right, left and in the background. Annotated on the back in ink in the same unknown hand as that on the photos of corrugated basalt at Siebengebrige and others in WP17/8 "Glacier garden Lucerne." Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Lucerne Switzerland Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.