NHM-WP01.003.067    Note:    undated   BLANK RECORD: Item transferred to more appropriate series

NHM-WP01.003.070    Note:    undated   BLANK RECORD: Piece transferred to more appropriate series

NHM-WP01.006.008    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Scofield ?, Reiche Eugenis?, Cotton Sir Arthur Thomas, New Age The  undated   Brown envelope, very torn and brittle, annotated in A. R. Wallace's or WGW's? hand "Fred. Birch's latest letters (to Dec?1910.)" which contained the letters and postcards from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Brazil, 1899 and 1910, when received at the NHM. Notes: Included because of the annotation but could probably be destroyed. PJL March 2003.

NHM-WP04.004.010    Note:    undated   Inner wrapping around bundled letters as delivered for listing; part of a torn sheet with "A. R. Wallace's letters from U.S.A. to his family 1886-1887" written in pencil in WGW's? hand on one side, and part of the first page of cyclostyled or carbon-copied notes apparently from a local council meeting concerning district council duties in relation to public rights of way and roadside verges, quoting a local Government act of 1894 . Place: England Notes: Notes may be from a Broadstone or Wimborne council meeting between 1901and 1907, when A. R. Wallace's letters frequently refer to roadbuilding around his house; annotation probably in WGW's hand written for James Marchant; see Biographical material/papers re James Marchant, WP2/6

NHM-WP06.006.006    Photo:    undated   4 photos, a photographer's envelope and 6 annotated proof sheets? of images illustrating 'The Polynesians and their Migrations' in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social" (London 1900) vol. , pp. 339-415, figs 52-58, comprising: 1.Translucent envelope printed "J. Horsburgh & Son | Studios & Galleries | 131 Princes Street | West End | Edinburgh" containing when listed five portrait photographs, two of Tahiti natives, two of Hawaii natives (2-5 below) and 1 of a native of Api, New Hebrides (see WP6/6/7); c. 1890? based on period of operation of photographers J Horsburgh and Sons. 2. Portrait photo of a young man with short hair decorated with leaves and flowers, in profile looking to the viewer's left, in front of a light coloured screen (paling fence? with rocks visible beneath). Seated in profile on a wooden chair, naked to the waist and wearing trousers. The image ends just below knee level. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 20 cm, with "Gov. Copyt. Native Man. Tahiti. 405. J.H." printed or stamped in white along the bottom edge. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 20 cm. Reproduced in vol. 1, p. 406, fig. 52. Speculative date c. 1874? when the ship was in Tahiti. 3. Portrait photo of a young woman with shoulder-length hair decorated with leaves and flowers, in profile looking to the viewer's right, in front of a plain dark screen or blanket. She is seated on a wooden chair and is naked to the waist and wearing a long wrapped skirt. The image ends just below knee level. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 20 cm, with "Govt. Copyt. Native Girl. Tahiti. 403. J.H." printed or stamped in white along the bottom edge. This photograph, attributed to "Challenger" (the HMS "Challenger" scientific expedition, 1872-1876) by permission of the Stationery Office (HMSO) is reproduced in vol. 1, p. 407, fig. 53. Speculative date c. 1874? when the ship was in Tahiti. 4. Portrait photo of a middle-aged man with short hair and moustache, naked to the waist and wearing pale trousers or sarong with one hand visible in his lap, seated against a thatched wall. Seen in profile looking to the viewer's left. Image ends just below waist level. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 20 cm, with "Gov Copyt. Hawaii Man. 383. J H. " printed or stamped in white along the bottom edge. This photograph, attributed to "Challenger" (the HMS "Challenger" scientific expedition, 1872-1876) by permission of the Stationery Office (HMSO) is reproduced in vol. 1, p. 408. Speculative date c. 1874? when the ship was in Tahiti. 5. Portrait photo of a young woman with short dark curly hair, wearing a long-sleeved open-necked dress and paisley scarf, facing the camera with her hands in her lap, in front of a thatched wall. The image ends at knee level. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 20 cm, with "Gov Copyt. Hawaii Girl. 380. J H. " printed or stamped in white along the bottom edge. This photograph, attributed to "Challenger" (the HMS "Challenger" scientific expedition, 1872-1876) by permission of the Stationery Office (HMSO) is reproduced in vol. 1, p. 409. Speculative date c. 1874? when the ship was in Tahiti. 6. Proof sheet? or part -sheet, with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 6.5 cm, showing a young man of Tahiti, with short hair decorated with leaves and flowers, in profile looking to the viewer's left (see item 2 above), annotated in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand, numbered "52" in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. 7. Proof sheet? or part -sheet, with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 6.5 cm, showing a young woman of Tahiti with shoulder-length hair decorated with leaves and flowers, seated, in profile, naked to the waist (See item 3 above), annotated in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand, numbered "53" in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. 8. Proof sheet? or part -sheet, with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 6.5 cm, showing in profile a seated middle-aged man of Hawaii with short hair and moustache, naked to the waist (see item 4 above), annotated in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand, numbered "54" in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. 9. Proof sheet? or part -sheet, with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 6.5 cm, showing a young woman of Hawaii with short dark curly hair, wearing a long-sleeved open-necked dress and paisley scarf, facing the camera (see item 5 above); annotated in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand, numbered "55" in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. 10. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx. 12.5 cm x 9.5 cm, showing a man of Tonga wearing a grass necklace, in 3/4 profile looking to the viewer's right; annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand, numbered "56" in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. Reproduced in vol. 1, p. 411, fig. 56, attributed to J J Lister. 11. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx. 12 cm x 9 cm, showing a man of Samoa, annotations in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand include "Taken in 1893. Col. Swinton", numbered "57" in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. Reproduced in vol. 1, p. 413, fig. 57, attributed to the Royal Geographical Society. 12. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx. 12 cm x 9 cm, showing a woman of Samoa; annotations in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand include "Feb. 1893. Col. Swinton", numbered "58" in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. Reproduced in vol. 1, p. 414, fig. 58, attributed to the Royal Geographical Society. Place: Edinburgh Scotland Hawaii Tahiti

NHM-WP06.008.015    Photo:    undated   Annotated sepia photo of the entrance to the cave Porth y Ogof, Vale of Neath, showing the figure of a woman in hat and long skirt standing on a ledge on the left of the picture. Place: Wales Notes: See also WP6/8/21; WP6/8/22

NHM-WP07.114    Note:    undated   Label, "Mss & Proofs of articles &c. by A.R.W." in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand in ink on a sheet of letter paper; "Mss" has been deleted in pencil and a pencilled tick added below the text. Notes: Found loose in original box 3 of the papers when listed.

NHM-WP07.116.[02]    Note:    undated   Brown envelope cut in half, addressed to A. R. Wallace, postmarked on back Wimborne with illegible date, annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Mss. on Dimensions of Space. | Rests on verbal quibbles with no actual or possible facts to support the supposed possibility" written over the following in pencil, also in A. R. Wallace's hand? "Dimensions of Space - A.R.W. | Physical Phenomena O. Lodge"; labelled "A1" in pencil in A. R. Wallace's or another's hand; containing the above when listed. Notes: The annotated envelope containing the mss was in an envelope of unrelated miscellanea including accounts of expenditure Old Orchard, when listed. P J L 10/6/03.

NHM-WP12.024    Note:    undated   BLANK RECORD

NHM-WP12.038    Note:    undated   "The Waste of Beauty | Written after reading "… Malay Archipelago", undated poem signed J W Gough, Ms in ink on 1 folded folio (3 pp) of lined paper, annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand on the title page "Ideas and sentiments good - | verse but so-so | A.R.W." over "Not bad on the whole" in pencil in his? or WGW's? hand. Notes: A. R. Wallace's "Malay Archipelago" was first published in 1869 but frequently reprinted; the date of the poem could be anywhere between 1869 and A. R. Wallace's year of death, 1913.