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NHM-WP18.004
Note:
[1854]--[1903]
Six folios of undated rough notes, apparently entomological, in pencil and ink in an unknown hand, and a (draft? ) letter, undated, to "Dear Sir " (A. R. Wallace?) from Ernest F Bates, with annotated envelope. Notes: First date based on A. R. Wallace's arrival in Malaya (but could be earlier), last date on the date of death of Frederick Bates, assuming E F Bates to be his son, but no information has been found on him.
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NHM-WP03.018
Note:
1854--1862
Note in Wallace's hand entitled "Notes on Curculionidae" with the following localities covered; Singapore, Sarawak, Aru Islands, Macassar, Ternate, Dorey, Ceram, Waigion, Batchian and Menado
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NHM-WP07.003
Printed:
1855
Reprint "On the Law which has regulated the introduction of new species" by A. R. Wallace from "Annals and Mag, Nat Hist Sept 1855, 14 pp. pamphlet annotated on front in A. R. Wallace's hand with title and "Only Copy left".
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NHM-WP19.02
Figure:
1855
"‘Bua Umpili’ Dyak. Acorns. Sarawak. N.W. Borneo. 1855." Drawing of Acorns.
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NHM-WP19.15a
Figure:
1855
Watercolour painting of a flowering Polyalthea tree in Sarawak. "Sarawak, Borneo Polyalthea sp. (Anonaceae)"
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NHM-WP19.03
Figure:
1855
"In a clearing, Simunjon, Borneo." [1855]. Watercolour painting of a rainforest tree in a clearing at Simunjan, Sarawak
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NHM-WP19.01
Figure:
1855
"Aeschynanthus sp. Borneo Flowers brilliant crimson scarlet, tube yellow, leaves light green, calyx yel. green Leaves found with a ring of 8 pointed stipules?" Watercolour painting of a Aeschynanthus flower from Sarawak
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NHM-WP19.04
Figure:
1855
"Rhacophorus n.s. Tree frog. Sarawak. Back & limbs dark green, beneath and inner toes yel. web black at base, yellow rayed at margin, legs not at all banded, glossy dark uniform green" Watercolour painting of Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) from Sarawak
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NHM-WP19.27
Figure:
1855
Watercolour painting of the head of a female rhinoceros hornbill from Sarawak. "Rhinoceros Hornbill of Borneo. ♀ ⅔ of natural size"
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NHM-WP19.05b
Figure:
1855
Drawing of flower. "Crewen Dyak." "white flower with 2 bract, calyx valvate, 5 sepals. Corolla imbricate twisted stamens in five flat bundles opp petals - all fertile anthers of 3/4/5 female globes discharging pollen by pores. style purple stigma capitate - ovary 5 celled with central placenta, each 2 seeded- surrounded by elongate conical warts terminated in stillate hairs in Sterculiaceae". "leaves alternate, no stipules, 9 in long, thick leathery with strong et diag with a eulumarginal at the end. bark rather rough, stem cylindrical slightly butressed at base. Exudes a thick resinous turpentine sap - mix with Dammia for caulking"
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NHM-WP19.06b
Figure:
1855
Drawing of Leaves. "Cugorowan Leaves hard dark green, alternate ovate acute exstipulate with parallel veins curving up at margin often cross vein between. Branch dicompound congent? like with line at ends. Gen 3 inc long, bark rough longitudially centred trunk cyclindical, slightly buttressed at base 150-200 ft".
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NHM-WP19.08
Figure:
1855
Sketch of Tall Tree. "stem partially taller in proportion to the branching head".
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NHM-WP19.10b
Figure:
1855
Pencil drawing of flowers. "Leaves ovate acute smooth without stipules. Crowded but whorled? at end of petals".
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NHM-WP19.14b
Figure:
1855
Drawing of Leaves on tree branch. "Helemedan? Dyak" "tree section when cut at 7 feet from the ground" "Leaves alternate ovate smooth thin without stipules, boughs much branched, leaves crowded. Bark thin rather smooth, whitish surface crumbling off, stem much furrowed and angular. Deeply butressed - 200-250 feet"
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NHM-WP19.15b
Figure:
1855
Watercolour of a flower. "Anonaceae ?annona" "a fruit showing the atalked carpels - pale yellow" " An allied sp. flower pale buff, fruit pale green subacid" "Leaves alternate without stipules, ovate acute - no dots or marginal waves, curved veins. Flower deep orange - in twos 30 degrees near the stem. Some trees are and more crowded with flowers than shown on the other side. Colour most intense and brillant orange"
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NHM-WP19.18a
Figure:
1855
Sketches of Gonystylus tree fruit "Bua ramin. (Dyak)" "base", "vertical section of seed with large fleshy red arillus", "This arillus is much eaten by the orang utan. Leaves alternate without stipules ovate entire acute, coriaceous with parallel curved veins & minute dots.", "? Euphorbiaceous"
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NHM-WP19.19b
Figure:
1855
Drawings of leaves and fruit. "Lunquon" "Fruit roundish oval with two elongate oval seeds in pulp. Outer shell hard" "Leaves pinnate alternate in a bunch at the end of the branchlets. Leaflets opp. ovate smooth, 2 -3 in long. Trunk rather short, above much waved & twisted branchlets very numberous and much contorted. bark very smooth. Stem bustressed"
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NHM-WP19.21b
Figure:
1855
Drawing of Areca gracilis. "leaflets slightly narrow..... sets of 3-4, comb like species"
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NHM-WP01.003.064
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel, Sims Thomas, Sims Frances née Wallace,
[1856]
Part-letter (last 2 pages) from A. R. Wallace to Thomas or Fanny Sims, initialled A. R. Wallace, from Singapore? 1856? ; re transmission and payment for "Home News"; (Sims's) advertisements for photographic portraits on enamel opal glass and paper; insects and box of heavy clothes sent home; plan to visit California; funny Chinese pictures. Place: California USA Singapore Malaya Notes: Not listed in contents. One folio. First page(s) of text missing. Addressee unknown
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NHM-WP03.002
Note:
[1856]
Sketch book containing pencil sketches in an unknown hand (A. R. Wallace? HEW?) including a scene of [Chinese?] and western men [sailors? dancing? in a clearing in front of palm trees and huts, [Church?] ruins [in Wales?], portraits (copies, including Byron? - has over the top the quote "Look on his feature and behold his mind …", "Napoleon Buonaparte" - hand looks like A. R. Wallace's - and George III, Jane Austen? Nelson? And Beethoven? ); portrait of a child writing by candle light; landscapes, decorative details of buildings. Book approx 18.5 cm x 14 cm with pink and grey marbled paper cover sewn on without spine, about 20 pages, most with protective tissue interleaved.
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WSPEC084
Periodical contribution:
Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr.A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 1: 4-39, pls. 1-2 [Read 15 January 1856.].
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