NHM-WP10.002.[04]    Printed:    1870?--1888?   Physical Geography No 1 Examination paper. A. Configuration of the earth. 1 folio print, undated, with annotations including, at the top, "Marks." This is NOT a duplicate of the first document, each having different questions.

NHM-WP10.002.[06]    Printed:    1870?--1888?   Physical Geography No 2 Examination paper, A. Physical geography of Palestine. 1 folio print, undated, without annotations. Duplicate of document 2.

NHM-WP10.002.[08]    Note:    1870?--1888?   Ms notes on three examination questions, on 1 folio in A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "Notes for Judd". Undated.

NHM-WP10.002.[10]    Printed:    1870?--1888?   1 folio, print: Rugby School geographical prize examination paper January, 1881.

NHM-WP10.002.[12]    Note:    1870?--1888?   2 foolscap folios of ms in an unknown hand (T Rupert Jones' ?), undated, listing names of geography examiners and associated dates; with annotations in A. R. Wallace's? hand. Names include Ansted, Bates, Dallas, Lockyer, Judd and Wallace among others. Associated dates are from 1871 to 1885. One folio is labelled on the back in A. R. Wallace's? hand "T.Rupert Jones' Notes of Examiners."

NHM-WP10.002.[14]    Note:    1870?--1888?   1 folio of ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "Physiography | Suggestions for questions | Elementary". Undated.

NHM-WP10.002.[16]    Note:    1870?--1888?   1 folio of ms with geography examination questions in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Sent to Prof. Ansted June 1874".

NHM-WP10.002.[18]    Note:    1870?--1888?   3 folios of ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "Private Notes | Curiosities of examinations." with questions and quotations from answers to geography exams of 1873 and 1875. There are two blue foolscap folios (1873 exam) and one small cream folio (1875 exam). Notes: One page torn, others folded to fit cover. For convenience of location the loose papers have been numbered in pencil in square brackets in the order listed in the description field, but not recorded as separate pieces.P J Lucas, Feb 2003.

NHM-WP04.001.[01]    Note:    [1871]   Architectural drawings, consisting of : 1.Ground plan on waxed linen in black and coloured ink headed "Villa [ i.e. "The Dell"] at Grays | For A. R. Wallace", no date, minor annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand, approx 70 cm x 40 Place: Grays Essex 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. Architect may have been Thomas Robjohn Wonnacott, architect and Surveyor, who proved a will at St Pancras in 1876 (Source: www.wonnacott.org/wills.htm). Nos. 1- 4 were in a modern envelope (discarded) labelled in R W's hand "Plans for 'The Dell' | Sketch for a National Museum 1864"; Nos. 5-7 were in a separate long envelope with no stamp, addressed to "Guayaquil" c/o Davies & Co Advertising agents…London, address crossed out and "Plans of 'The Dell' Grays" added in pencil in ARW's? WGW's? hand. The plan and elevation of the Museum and the envelope were on display in the Rare Books room before listing: they are recorded in the preliminary list for original box 3.

NHM-WP04.001.[03]    Note:    [1871]   Architectural drawings, consisting of : 3. Ground plan on (waxed linen?) in black and coloured ink, apparently drawn by A. R. Wallace; not the same as previous - possibly an initial idea, or of another wing, but may be of a different house, includes verandah leading to a hall with dining room or library on the left and breakfast room on the right; gas pipes shown in red, water pipes in blue; annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand in red, black and blue ink. Place: Grays Essex England

NHM-WP04.001.[05]    Note:    [1871]   Architectural drawings, consisting of : 5. South view and roof plan of the same house ("The Dell"), approx 37 x 24 cm, ink and colour wash drawing on waxed linen by A. R. Wallace? undated, unsigned and without any title: identified as before Place: Grays Essex 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. Architect may have been Thomas Robjohn Wonnacott, architect and Surveyor, who proved a will at St Pancras in 1876 (Source: www.wonnacott.org/wills.htm). Nos. 1- 4 were in a modern envelope (discarded) labelled in R W's hand "Plans for 'The Dell' | Sketch for a National Museum 1864"; Nos. 5-7 were in a separate long envelope with no stamp, addressed to "Guayaquil" c/o Davies & Co Advertising agents…London, address crossed out and "Plans of 'The Dell' Grays" added in pencil in ARW's? WGW's? hand. The plan and elevation of the Museum and the envelope were on display in the Rare Books room before listing: they are recorded in the preliminary list for original box 3.

NHM-WP04.001.[07]    Note:    [1871]   Architectural drawings, consisting of : 7. Attic Plan and Chamber Plan (of "The Dell"?) including Nursery and Store in attic, on one sheet approx 37 x 24 cm, ink and colour wash drawing on waxed linen by A. R. Wallace? undated, unsigned and without any title. Place: Grays Essex England

NHM-WP07.041.[01]    Draft:    1871   Printed proof sheets from "The Academy" annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "March 1871, of a review by him of Charles Darwin, "The Descent of man and Selection in relation to Sex (London 1871) with minor corrections, pasted onto 7 folios of red-lined blue paper, back and front, most with page numbers (up to 14) added in ink

NHM-WP07.109.[01]    Draft:    1871--1911   "The Geographical Distribution of Animal Life", undated proof (1910?) corrected in A. R. Wallace's hand, pp. [1]-9, 9 ff. printed on one side only. Notes: Published as "The Geography of the Animal Kingdom" in Harmsworth Natural History : a complete survey of the Animal Kingdom / Chief contributors: R. Lydekker, W. H. Johnston, J.R. Ainsworth-Davis. (London, 1910-1911), vol. 1 (1910) pp. 57-70. Not listed in Smith.

NHM-WP07.109.[03]    Draft:    1871--1911   "The Geographical Distribution of Animal Life", undated duplicate? proof (1910?) pp. [1]-9, 9 ff. printed on one side only annotated at the top of the first page in A. R. Wallace's? hand "(From Harmsworth's Natural History)" and in pencil in an unknown hand "A1". Notes: Published as "The Geography of the Animal Kingdom" in Harmsworth Natural History : a complete survey of the Animal Kingdom / Chief contributors: R. Lydekker, W. H. Johnston, J.R. Ainsworth-Davis. (London, 1910-1911), vol. 1 (1910) pp. 57-70. Not listed in Smith.

NHM-WP13.001    Note:    1871--1913   Small cardboard folder apparently made from the cover of a book or notebook from which the original pages have been removed. Two titles on the spine in ink in A. R. Wallace's and an unknown hand, obscured by torn paper: "Bates on Delta of Amazon. Wall. on R Wagr . . ." (remainder torn away) and, upside down relative to this and deleted, "Asa Gray. Review of D..." (remainder torn away). Titled on front cover in in in A. R. Wallace's hand, over illegible text in blue pencil: "Papers and Pamphlets by Carpenter and Parallax - also Hampden - Flat-Earth Man!" Contents: Printed papers and pamphlets including material on A. R. Wallace's acceptance of John Hampden's challenge to demonstrate the curvature of the earth and subsequent dispute.

NHM-WP13.001.011    Correspondence:   Carpenter William, Wallace Alfred Russel, Hampden John  1871   Letter paper printed with the address Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, with "Spiritualism | Wallace v. Carpenter | Hampden's & Flat-Earth Experiments - I &c. &c. " written on the first page in A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink. Place: Dorset Norfolk England Notes: This was found loose among unrelated papers in WP1 and has been inserted here - it is presumably a file title page for the item.

NHM-WP13.001.010    Printed:    1871?--1871?   Printed pamphlet, undated, titled "The Universal Challenge to Unnatural Science! Twenty Reasons against Newtonianism with Geographical Proofs that the earth is an extended plane. By Ebenezer Breach, natural astronomer and poet . . ." 16 pages. The cover includes review quotes including one by "S.L.H." which is annotated with an asterisk and a note in A. R. Wallace's? hand "This was written as a joke". Notes: Dated on the basis that the wager of the curvature of the earth occurred in 1870. Other possibilities include 1885 or 1886, when John Hampden was acting against A. R. Wallace. RECORD MODIFIED 24/7/03 CLASS TITLE

NHM-WP06.001    Note:    1872--unknown   Paper(s) relating to Wallace, Alfred Russel, 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". 2 volumes. Macmillan & Co., London, 9 March 1869 and subsequent editions/reprints.

NHM-WP03.003    Notebook:    [1873]--[1913]   Small lined and ruled notebook with "Addresses" faintly visible on front cover and the remains of a brass clasp on back and front boards; containing very approximately personal and corporate names and addresses in A. R. Wallace's hand, with a few printed address lists and labels pasted onto some pages and onto the inside front cover, and lists of people to whom various A. R. Wallace publications or letters were sent (detailed below). Addresses are in alphabetical order by name but divided into categories, (by year?) so that there is more than one section A-Z. Addresses pasted in include a list in newsprint of newspaper offices in London, on the flyleaf underneath a list in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Paintings". Twelve pages at the back of the book contain gardening notes written upside down relative to the front pages and beginning on the last page of the book. These are a calendar of flowering plants at the Dell, April-May 1873 and 1875, (143-141) list of Cape (South African) heaths each with botanical name, description and time of flowering, (pp. 139-131) and a diagram of plantings c. 1889-1890 (p. 130). A loose business card from Parsons & Hayter, Builders and Estate Agents of Swanage and Wareham, is enclosed between pp 63 and 64. The notebook is approximately 16cm x 9cm, approximately 120 pages, of which 12 between the address and gardening notes section are blank. Notes which are not, or not simply, address lists are: p. 19: Names: Dec 1879, written to about result of Epping Forest Competition. p. 20: Names: To send nationalisation circular (list undated) pp. 39-40: Names: Land Nationalisation bound and paper copies sent to.(At the top of p. 40 is a note of "Diagrams on black calico by Geo. A. Rea [sic]") p. 41: includes a list of Guildford newspapers. p. 42: includes a list of gardeners pp. 43-44: Probable income during 1886-7-8,and Fixed outgoings p.45: Names: Large photos (Portrait?) sent to. pp. 46-47: American addresses (other American addresses occur in the alphabetical sections) p. 48: Miscellaneous U. K names and addresses not in alphabetical order, including V.C. special committee of London Society for the abolition of vaccination. pp. 49-50: Names: Darwinism sent to p. 50; Names: L. N. (Land Nationalisation) Address (sent to?) p. 54: Names: "Expressiveness of Speech", copies sent to p. 55: Names: "Gorge of the Aar", sent to p. 76: includes names: Copies of L.N. address 1895 "Unemployed" sent to p. 79: includes names: Copies new edition of "Island Life" July 1902 sent to p. 106: includes names: Copies of "Is Mars Habitable" sent to p. 108: Names: "Is it peace or war" copies of Public Opinion Aug 14, 1908 sent to Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Notes: I have numbered the pages in pencil in square brackets from [1] to [143] beginning with the inside front flyleaf . P J Lucas Feb 2003. 5. Extremely poor condition, broken back, boards loose, flyleaf and some pages at front loose. This is likely to be a very important source of information and conservation should be high priority. PJL 2003

NHM-WP07.043.[01]    Printed:    1873   Press cutting, letter to the Editor, "Daily News" headed "The evils of the drink traffic and their remedy" annotated at the top in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "?date 1873?" and "A.R.W."

NHM-WP17.005    Photo:    1873--1884   Folder containing 22 printed portraits of scientists, published by Macmillan and Co., London and issued by "Nature" to subscribers 1873-1884. Most engraved by C H Jeens, some by G J Stodart, most from photographs; showing head and shoulders, full face or 3/4 profile except in the case of Charles Darwin, who is shown in profile facing towards the viewer's right; Wallace's portrait is not included.

NHM-WP07.042.[02]    Printed:    1874   Offprint or proof of Notices of Books from an unnamed journal (Spectator 47: 535-536 (25 April 1874: no. 2391: see Smith S 242) vol. IV, N.S., Apr 1874, pp 229- 232, containing an anonymous review of George St. Clair, "Darwinism and Design; or Creation by Evolution" (London 1873) annotated on first page in WGW's? hand in pencil "Review by A.R.W." 2 ff.

NHM-WP12.040.[2]    Note:    1874?--1885?   Torn and brittle remains of an envelope on top annotated in WGW's?, hand include "Mss by Prof ? on Island of Juan Fernandez". Notes: First date based on covering dates of the HMS "Challenger" scientific expedition 1872-1876. Possibly a copy of part of the Report of the Challenger Expedition IV. Botany.Vol. 1, Part III. - Botany of Juan Fernandez, south-eastern Moluccas, and the Admiralty Islands by W. B. Hemsley (London 1885)

NHM-WP12.008    Note:    1875   Poem; copy in A. R. Wallace's hand of four verses from "Jonas Fisher" (by James Carnegie 1875) on industrialism, workers and manufacturer's greed.