Search Help New search |
Results 2151-2200 of 3245 for « +type:item » |
2151. | |
2152. |
NHM-WP01.003.062
Note:
[1856]
Undated MS in ink and pencil A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "The Chinaman at Singapore" with brief notes re the typical Chinese merchant, shopkeeper, planter and coolie, and Kling (Chettiar) tradesmen.
Text
Image
|
2153. |
NHM-WP18.004.002
Note:
[1856]--[1862]
Rough undated note in pencil listing (biography categories? aspects of the study and practice of entomology?) including "Friends (photos)" "Correspondents" "Books -Societies" "cleaning-repinning and carding" and "Distribution - knowing where species come from". Possibly in A. R. Wallace's early hand but doubtful. Notes: First date based on letter to H W Bates from A. R. Wallace in 1856 including discussion of need to record location of species collected
|
2154. | |
2155. | |
2156. | |
2157. | |
2158. |
WSPEC074rep
Periodical contribution:
Walker, Francis. 1856. Catalogue of the homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie, 19: 361-398.
PDF
|
2159. | |
2160. | |
2161. | |
2162. | |
2163. |
NHM-WP12.003
Printed:
1857--1871
Papers by Francis P Pascoe describing coleoptera species collected by A. R. Wallace; six reprint or offprints dated from 1857-1871 including 2 copies of "Catalogue of Zygopinae, a subfamily of Curculonidae, Found by Mr. Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago" (1871) one of which was an probably enclosure to letter to WGW from F P Pascoe (Junior?) c 1913 ( See WP12/3/1); letter from F P Pascoe (Junior?) to WGW, 1913? ; annotated envelope. Notes: The following loose note in pencil in Richard Wallace's hand was stuck beneath the string tying all but one of these reprints and envelope when listed: "New Species Coll. A. R. Wallace described Pascoe | Cephalozia R Spruce | Hepaticae R Spruce | Precis (French) Spruce I On Anomoclada " | Yorkshire Mosses & Hepatics Slater". See WP8, papers re Richard Spruce and "Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes".
|
2164. | |
2165. | |
2166. | |
2167. | |
2168. | |
2169. | |
2170. | |
2171. | |
2172. | |
2173. | |
2174. | |
2175. | |
2176. | |
2177. | |
2178. | |
2179. | |
2180. | |
2181. | |
2182. | |
2183. | |
2184. | |
2185. |
BM-AN807666001
Miscellaneous:
1858
Wooden float for turtle spear, carved in the form of a bird. Length 27 cm. Obtained by A.R. Wallace at Batanta, Raja Ampat Islands, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2186. |
BM-As1935,1014.10
Miscellaneous:
1858
Woman's belt (waist) made of cane, rattan. Obtained by A.R.Wallace in Seram. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2187. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.1
Miscellaneous:
1858
Figure (with 'shield'), korwar, made of wood, height 13 inches. Obtained by A.R.Wallace in Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2188. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.2
Miscellaneous:
1858
Figure, korwar, made of wood. Obtained by A.R.Wallace in Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2189. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.3
Miscellaneous:
1858
Figure, korwar, made of wood. Obtained by A.R.Wallace in Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2190. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.4
Miscellaneous:
1858
Stick (with figure), charm made of wood, cotton cloth, vegetable fibre. Obtained at Dorey, New Guinea by A.R. Wallace. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father ...in 1859".
|
2191. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.5
Miscellaneous:
1858
Wooden spoon, the handle ornamented & terminating in a human figure, length 26 cm. Collected by A.R. Wallace in Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2192. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.6
Miscellaneous:
1858
Shield (for korvar figure) made of wood. Collected at Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2193. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.7
Miscellaneous:
1858
Beater (for clay) made of wood. Obtained by A.R. Wallace in Dorey, New Guinea. This object has an ornate pattern carved onto three surfaces. This is not a beater (ie not used to shape the pot) but is used to impress designs onto the surface of the pot (see Wallace). Figd in A.R. Wallace's, "Malay Archipelago" (1869), Vol. II, p.324. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father ...in 1859".
|
2194. |
BM-Oc1935,1014.8
Miscellaneous:
1858
Scoop made of coconut shell. Obtained by A.R. Wallace at Dorey, New Guinea. Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
Donated by Miss Wallace and W.G. Wallace in 1935. Register information: 'These objects were collected by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., the donor's father …in 1859".
|
2195. | |
2196. |
NHM-WP01.003.072
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel
[1858]
Annotated list (part letter?) initialled by A. R. Wallace and in his hand, headed " Insects of the Eastern Archipelago, collected by A R Wallace from May 1, 1854 to January 1st 1858" , with generic names, specimens totals and locations where collected; a paragraph including "I surpass you considerably in the number of species" is written on one side - possible part of a letter to H W Bates. Place: Amboyna Malaya Aru Islands Netherlands Indies Borneo Macassar Celebes Malacca Singapore Notes: Not entered on contents list. Loose note (destroyed) written by E.B. c. 2002 "Insects of the Eastern Archipelago. 1 sheet may belong to a bigger volume?" RECORD MODIFIED 12/10/03: FIRST DATE CORRECTED from 1854.01.01. Probably part of a letter to H W Bates, possibly 1858.01.04 (WP1/3/41)
|
2197. |
NHM-WP07.009
Printed:
1858
"On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. by Charles Darwin… and Alfred Wallace… Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell… and J. D. Hooker…" from The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society for August 1858 (read 1 July 1858); final proof or reprint sewn into brown paper cover labelled in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Species | Darwin ^ Wallace"; pp. [1]-62 with correction and additions in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink and a note on the back flyleaf in pencil in his hand, beginning "1860. Feb | After reading Mr Darwin's admirable work 'On the Origin of Species'…" Place: Ternate Moluccas Netherlands Indies Notes: When listed this was in an acid free envelope labelled in pencil by NHM library staff c2000 "1858 Lin. Soc. Paper | species - Darwin/Wallace | Box 3 Box file" .
|
2198. | |
2199. | |
2200. |