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.

LINSOC-MS181    Notebook:    1854--1862   Notebook: "Eastern Butterflies."

NHM-WP19.22    Figure:    1854--1900   Drawing of Algae drawing - Herbarium

NHM-WP19.24    Figure:    1854--1900   Drawing of brown Algae

NHM-WP19.26a    Figure:    1854--1900   Drawing of Fucus

WSPEC095    Periodical contribution:     Stevens, Samuel. 1855. [Reading of a letter received from Mr Wallace in Borneo]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (new series) 3: 87.   Text   Image   PDF

WS14    Periodical contribution:     Ellesmere, Earl of. 1855. Address to the Royal Geographical Society of London; delivered at the Anniversary meeting on the 28th May, 1855. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 25: cxv.   Text   PDF

NHM-WP19.02    Figure:    1855   "‘Bua Umpili’ Dyak. Acorns. Sarawak. N.W. Borneo. 1855." Drawing of Acorns.

LINSOC-MS180    Notebook:    1855--1859   [Notebook 4] "Notes. Vertebrata." "Notes. Insects 4."

NHM-WP19.03    Figure:    1855   "In a clearing, Simunjon, Borneo." [1855]. Watercolour painting of a rainforest tree in a clearing at Simunjan, Sarawak

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

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"   Image

WSPEC199    Periodical contribution:     Gray, John Edward. 1855. Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum; part I: Testudinata (tortoises). London: British Museum   PDF

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"

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".

NHM-WP19.08    Figure:    1855   Sketch of Tall Tree. "stem partially taller in proportion to the branching head".

NHM-WP19.10b    Figure:    1855   Pencil drawing of flowers. "Leaves ovate acute smooth without stipules. Crowded but whorled? at end of petals".

NHM-WP19.14a    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Tree with creepers. "Si Munjon"

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"

NHM-WP19.18b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Tree

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"

NHM-WP19.21b    Figure:    1855   Drawing of Areca gracilis. "leaflets slightly narrow..... sets of 3-4, comb like species"

WSPEC098    Periodical contribution:     Stevens, Samuel. 1856. [Exhibition of remarkable insects sent from Borneo by Mr Wallace]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (new series) 4: 4.   Text   Image   PDF

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.

WSPEC083    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the homopterous 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: 82-100, pls. 3-4 [Read 6 May 1856.].   Text   Image   PDF