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NHM-WP09.001.002
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1867--1895?
List in A. R. Wallace's? hand on four small account-book pages (1 folio) headed "Lectures" listing amounts paid for lectures with dates covering 1867 -1894 and places in England, Scotland and Ireland but not titles of lectures; not in strict chronological order; titles of earlier lectures are noted on one page. Place: England Ireland Scotland
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NHM-WP17.011
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1868--1913
Large envelope labelled in WGW's? hand "Illustrations of Palm trees" containing two paper folders enclosing: 17 black and white illustrations mounted on paper, some interleaved with protective tissue, apparently all from engravings or woodcuts, most of or including palm trees, including a man riding a horse pulling a small two-wheeled carriage against a background of tropical gardens, by B. Mannfeld, captioned "Cubanische Volante", all captioned in German, most with annotations on the back in A. R. Wallace's hand, including "Cocos butyracea | Sketch from nature" on the back of "Am Magdalena | Guadua. Weinpalme | Lichtdruck v A .Frisch. Berlin", "Woodcut from a photograph (indifferent)" on the back of a scene captioned "Mexicanische Landschaft" and "Types of Quichua Indians | From photographs" on the back of "Typhen von Quichua-Indianern" by Mannfeld. 19 pieces; source not identified: NOT the illustrations used in A. R. Wallace's 1853 "Palm trees of the Amazon". Place: Ecuador Notes: Dates based on dates of Mannfeld and A. R. Wallace. The envelope also contained an undated "Punch" cartoon and undated watercolour of azaleas, when listed; see WP17/9 and WP17/10. Individual pieces have been numbered in pencil in square brackets WP17/11/1-17 but no individual piece records have been created at 28 Jan 2004.
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NHM-WP17.004.006
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1868?--1868?
View of trees and three tall tree trunks, probably California Redwood (Sequoia gigantea), two trunks in the foreground with a woman in bonnet and ankle-length dress seated apparently on an upholstered seat set into the base of the tree on the right, a lattice-like frame enclosing the mid-section of the trunk in the centre of the picture. Sepia photographic print approximately 21 cm x 31 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil " Not exceeding 5 5/8 | 3 1/2" with arrows indication dimensions. Annotated in an unknown hand in pencil "183 | 16348". No caption present. Possibly a Taber photo. Place: USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 49, p. 8, captioned "The 'Mother of the Forest' (Dead) Calaveras Grove." Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA, but possibly earlier.
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S715.1German
Book:
Wallace, A. R. 1869. Der Malayische Archipel, die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels: Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe von Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Braunchweig: George Westermann.Volume 1.
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S715.2German
Book:
Wallace, A. R. 1869. Der Malayische Archipel, die Heimath des Orang-Utan und des Paradiesvogels: Reiseerlebnisse und Studien über Land und Leute. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe von Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Braunchweig: George Westermann.Volume 2.
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S715[2d].2
Book:
Wallace, A. R. 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. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. 2d edition.
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NHM-WP06
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[1869]--1913
Papers related to the writing and publication of books by A. R. Wallace, including Mss, printed proofs of text and illustrations, annotated photographs and drawings, printed reviews, rough notes and correspondence.
First date is that of publication of first or only edition of work, dates in brackets those of the archived papers.
WP6/1 1869 (nd) Papers re Malay Archipelago
WP6/2 1870 (1871) Papers re Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection
WP6/3 1876 (1876?) Papers re The Geographical Distribution of Animals...
WP6/4 1880 (1880-81) Papers re Island Life
WP6/5 1889 (1889?-1901?) Papers re Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection…
WP6/6 1900 (1887?-1900?) Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
WP6/7 1903 (1904? Papers re Man's place in the Universe
WP6/8 1905 (1904-1906?) Papers re autobiography My Life
WP6/9 1907 (1907) Papers re Is Mars Habitable?
WP6/10 1910 (1911) Papers re The World of Life
WP6/11 1913 (1913) Papers re Social environment and moral progress
WP6/12 1889-1899 Readers' correspondence and related papers
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NHM-WP12.005
Printed:
1869
Pamphlet "British Association for the Advancement of Science. Exeter Change for the British Lions. Edited by Snug the Joiner" [J C Brough] (London 1869); satirical history, papers and address to the President of the BAAS, including "The Development Hypothesis ... by General Fitz Müddler" pp. 10-12, with a passage on page 12 describing Wallace ("Mr Darwin's alter ego") marked by a pencil line in the margin; 30 pages; approx 12 cm x 15cm; pages 19-22 inclusive have been cut out. Notes: A pencilled list of items in box 2 possibly in Richard Wallace's hand (not EB) was found loose near this work: placed in an envelope marked [for Richard Wallace 12 June] in the box containing old ref WP2/25 onwards. PJL 3/6/2003
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Book contribution:
Wallace, A. R. 1869. Discussion. In: Huxley, T.H. On the distribution of the races of mankind, and its bearing on the antiquity of man. Transactions of the Third Session of the International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., pp. 103-104.
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NHM-WP17.018.[2]
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Illustration captioned "Church of St. Nicholas, Ghent", black and white woodcut or engraving showing the church in the middle ground, with a horse and carriage nearby and four or five small groups of people in Victorian dress in the street in the foreground; approximately 9cm x 7cm, apparently cut from a book or journal. Place: Ghent Belgium Scotland Notes: Possibly from "The Illustrated London News" or a similar paper. Both cuttings were found loose among William Greenell Wallace correspondence.
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S715.1Dutch
Book:
Wallace, A. R. 1870. Insulinde: het land van den orang-oetan en den paradijsvogel; uit het Engelsch vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien door p. J. Veth. Amsterdam: p. N. van Kampen. Volume 1.
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NHM-WP01.008
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel
1870--1913
Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z: 136 Letters, telegrams and postcards to A. R. Wallace and a few by him, to and from miscellaneous correspondents 1870-1913, some with enclosures including one photograph. The letters are arranged alphabetically by author in the case of letters to A. R. Wallace and by correspondent within the same series in the case of letters from him. The bulk of the letters is dated 1911-1913 congratulating A. R. Wallace on reaching or approaching his 90th birthday and/or reacting to an interview with him in the newspapers at the time or criticising of his latest books; other topics include the award of his Order of Merit, poverty and unemployment, and some scientific subjects. The file includes letters from scientists, scientific societies, spiritualist societies, corporate bodies, members of the public and family friends. Notes: The bulk of the letters were in a taped cardboard book folder annotated in WGW's hand "Not wanted" (old ref WP1/18); 23 letters from a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, first listed as item WP2/1 (former item title Correspondence 1849-1913); approximately 25 letters in a box file of unrelated material (old ref WP3/39) from original box 3 (as numbered in the rough box list supplied when listing began) and a few from box 4, have been incorporated.
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NHM-WP01.008.130
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel
1870--1913
Letter from E (Charles?) Williams to Mr Wallace (A. R. Wallace?) from (Queens?), on paper headed High Bank, Addiscombe, Croydon, Friday (no month or year), re proposed visit to Wallace on Sunday afternoon. Place: Croydon Surrey England Notes: Mr Williams, spiritualist Medium? See Raby p. 190 - but no dates. Post 1870?s. The letter was folded around 3 photos of a house and grounds labelled "W.J. Stillman" (see separate record WP17/12) but no mention is made of them in the letter.
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NHM-WP02.001.008
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[1870]
Portrait of Annie Mitten/Wallace: head and torso portrait photograph of a young woman, (Annie Wallace) 3/4 profile facing to the right in relationship to the viewer, centred in a broad sepia background. Her hair is pulled back into a plait or bun and she is wearing a dark dress buttoned to the neck, with a high white ruffled collar. Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "Mrs A R Wallace". On the bottom margin is printed "Sims 70, Lillie Rd., West Brompton, London, S.W." Faded sepia photographic print by (Thomas) Sims, undated, approximately 16.5 cm x 11 cm. Place: London England Dirty, with pencil scribble near the top.
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NHM-WP15
Note:
1870--1907
Mitten, William, Papers 1870-1907: Print, correspondence, and samples of a grass in an envelope, 1853-1907, by and relating to William Mitten, including reprints of papers on Botany, Geology and Natural History sent to Mitten by authors including J T Kirk and Clement Reid, and printed obituaries of Mitten c.1906-1907.
WP15/1 Mitten Papers: Correspondence -
WP15/2 Mitten Papers: Print -
WP15/3 Obituaries and Memoirs of William Mitten -
WP15/4 Mitten papers: Ephemera
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NHM-WP17.018.[1]
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[1870]--[1880]
Illustration captioned "Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries-shire", black and white woodcut or engraving showing a distant view of the castle between trees in the close foreground; approximately 9cm x 7cm, apparently cut from a book or journal.
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S531a
Book contribution:
Wallace, A. R. 1870-1889. Letters [to James Croll, 1870-1889]. In: Croll, James. 1896. Autobiographical sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., etc. London: E. Stanford, pp. 247, 247-249, 271, 334-335, 336-337, 337-339, 358-359, 361, 382, 387, 440-442, 468-469, 470-471.
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WSPEC353
Book:
Gray, John Edward. 1870. Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-Eating Bats in the Collection of the British Museum. London
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