NHM-WP15.002.004    Printed:    1895   Reid, Clement, "The origin of Megaceros-Marl" reprinted from the Irish Naturalist, May 1895. 2 pages. Place: Ireland Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author. No cover.

S507a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. The word "Scientist." Science-Gossip (n.s.) 1 (10): 242.   Text   Image

NHM-WP01.002.132    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William, Fisher Mrs  [1896]   Post-script to a letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, (from Parkstone, Dorset?) undated, 1896? re proposed visit to Barnstaple area, North Devon, rather than Switzerland "next year". Place: Devon Dorset England Notes: Written on a small folded sheet of white paper. Addressee obvious from context. Originally dated 1905? based on position in bundle, but references to A. R. Wallace's holiday in North Devon in 1897, in letter to Violet dated 11 Jun 1897 (WP1/2/ 90) make 1896 more likely.

NHM-WP15.002.007    Printed:    1896   Sir John Evans, Miss E Morse, Clement Reid, E P Ridley and H N Ridley, "The relation of Palaeolithic man to the Glacial epoch. Report of the Committee ... appointed to ascertain by excavation at Hoxne the relations of the Palaeolithic deposits to the boulder clay, and to the deposits with arctic and temperate plants." Printed report from the British Association meeting, Liverpool 1896, section C. 16 pages with diagrams including a fold-out diagram of geological strata at Hoxne brickyard. Sent to William Mitten by Clement Reid. Place: Hoxne Suffolk England

S521a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1896. Peat fibre for orchids. The Garden 49 (no. 1265, 15 Feb. 1896): 117.   Text   Image

WSPEC137    Periodical contribution:     Butler, Arthur G. 1896. An account of the butterflies of the genus Charaxes in the collection of the British Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 25 (163): 348–404   PDF

WSPEC216    Periodical contribution:     Blandford, W. F. H. 1896. Descriptions of new Scolytidae from the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan regions. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1896: 191–228.   PDF

WSPEC284    Periodical contribution:     Rothschild, Walter & Hartert, Ernst. 1896. Contributions to the ornithology of the Papuan islands. III. List of the birds of Bali. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 542-554.   PDF

WSPEC351.25    Book:     Saunders, H. & Salvin, O. 1896. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 25: Gaviae and Tubinares. London: Trustees of the British Museum.   PDF

NHM-WP04.003.001    Photo:    [1897--1900]   Corfe View, A. R. Wallace's house at Parkstone, Dorset: sepia photographic print c. 1897? approximately 11 cm x 8.5 cm labelled on the bottom edge in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Corfe View", showing a view of a three storey brick house, apparently of the back, with a lower balconied wing on the right, an attached conservatory or glass-house in the foreground and two steeply gabled attic rooms with ogee shaped frames at the top of the windows. A bush or low tree is in front of a trellis on the right of the conservatory. The print is slightly out of focus. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? and possibly another hand in blue and lead pencil "Wanted (illegible word) Wednesday | 4466 | I | 26471 | Dorset". Date based on letters mentioning and from or to Corfe View. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Placed in secol sleeve 17/4/03 FORMERLY IN Miscellaneous papers of A. R. Wallace: WP2; In envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Kelly's Photos of Corfe View" when listed. Possibly photographed by (Mr?) Kelly.

NHM-WP04.003.003    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Kelly ?  [1897--1900]   Stamped envelope approximately 12.5 cm x 9.9 cm addressed to Dr A R Wallace, Parkstone, Dorset, postmarked Bradford 2 Sep 1900 and annotated on the front in A. R. Wallace's hand "Kelly's photos of Corfe View." Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Four small photographic prints were contained in the envelope when received: two identical images of Wallace's house "Corfe View" , one of his house "Old Orchard" and one of a building bearing the sign "Free Library". These were firstly recorded separately as (Old REFS) WP2/10, 11, 12 and 13. A reproduction of the photo of the Free Library, Neath, designed by A. R. Wallace 1847 faces p. 246, vol. 1 of "My Life"; the print has been transferred to New Series/Item WP6/8, papers re A. R. Wallace's autobiography.

S535a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1897. Cattleya Mendeli and C. Mosiæ. The Garden 52 (no. 1351, 9 Oct. 1897): 276.   Text   Image

NHM-WP17.013.[02]    Photo:    [1897--1899]   Undated sepia photograph approximately 15 cm x 10.5 cm showing a front view of a (white marble?) statue of Charles Darwin (in the Museum of Oxford?), bearded, bareheaded, wearing a cloak, looking slightly downward, standing with feet and hands crossed; above a (marine?) animal skeleton, on a plinth attached to the supporting column of an arch. Notes: Dates based on a letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 1896 (WP1/2/77) and note of reminiscences of J D Hooker, Nature, 22 Jun 1899, at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/more_letters/mletters1_02.html

WSPEC235    Periodical contribution:     Gahan, C. J. 1897. Notes on the longicorn genus Glenea, Newm., with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 6) 19: 473-493.   PDF

NHM-WP17.017    Note:    1897?--1913?   Card, undated, illustrated with a coloured pencil sketch of a bearded man in blue jacket and cap, leaning on a fence and looking out to sea; with the text "A happy Christmas with wishes of kind remembrance from Eleanor S March | 14 Wolfe's Row Limpsfield."

NHM-WP02.002    Printed:    1898--1913   Interviews and biographical print pre November 1913: Press cuttings and other print copies of journalist's interviews with and opinions of A. R. Wallace, 1898-1913, from British and American newspapers and journals.

NHM-WP06.006.011    Photo:    [1898--1900]   Miscellaneous images related to A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) including defective and duplicate proofs, and rejected? photographs of subjects illustrated; comprising: 1.Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, undated, showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through a steep narrow gorge; apparently of the Aarschlucht but at different view from that reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar...' (Studies vol 1); possibly a reject: photographer probably Ananda Coomaraswamy.2. Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, apparently of the gorge of the Aarschlucht; a slightly darker copy of item 1 above 3. Photograph of a section of grooved and fissured cliff or rocky shore on card captioned in A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink "Glacial groovings near Barmouth." Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 16 cm, torn at top right corner, loosely mounted on card 16 cm x 20 cm; pencilled annotations including "Barmouth?" "base" and "from the front" in A. R. Wallace's hand can be seen on the back of the photo, other text appears to be hidden under glued section at the top. The mounting card is marked in pencil on the front above the photo "4" over an arrow and on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "12502- | Swan Sonnenschein o/n 459 | Tuesday". A similar photo attributed to "an unknown friend" illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets' (vol. 1, fig. 14). 4. Colour print approximately 22 cm x 16 cm, possibly from a from a hand-coloured photograph, of a sea cove between chalk cliffs with grassy slopes and two buildings in the foreground and a short sandy beach on which a number of small rowing boats have been drawn up, with others in the water, in the middle ground; printed caption on the bottom edge "10373. Flamborough North Sea Landing"; "Photochrom" printed faintly on the back at bottom right. Undated (c. 1900?) and unattributed. A different image of Flamborough illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets.' ( vol. 1, fig. 16, p. 84). 5. Sepia photo approximately 20.5 cm x 13 cm showing a lake surrounded by mountains, annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? or another's hand "Loch Avon and Cairngorm." Undated and unattributed; among other images in a brown paper envelope labelled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand "Photos &c for Studies" (i.e. A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social", London 1900) when listed and though not reproduced there, may have been considered as an illustration for one of the two articles on the Ice Age. 6. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing flat fields with drystone walling in front of a long escarpment; a low building in the right middle ground and a road with a low bridge and telegraph pole in the foreground. Annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand include "Wasdale Crag, | Shap | Roches Moutonée" and "4433". Stamped in purple on the bottom left "Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds" and in red on the right "Copyright." "Copyright" is also stamped in red on the right lower front of the picture. Undated. A different image of Wasdale Crag, attributed to Bingley, illustrates 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Fig 12, vol. 1). 7. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing trees in an undulating foreground and treeless hills and bluffs with some patches of snow, in the background. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Terminal Moraine | Inner Tongue | Middle Harbour Flat | Nr Appleby | 4408"; place probably Cumbria (given the stamp) but "Middle Harbour" and "Appleby" occur together with "moraine" in Cumbria, NZ and the USA. Stamped in purple on the bottom left "Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds. " and in red on the right "Copyright." Undated. Possibly considered for, but not published in, 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Vol. 1) where images of other terminal moraines occur. 8. Sepia photo loosely mounted on paper, image approximately 10 cm x 14 cm, showing three young women and three older men standing next to each other on short grass with an open hut with a thatched roof in the background. in row facing the camera; two of the women are naked to the waist, all three are wearing long wrapped skirts and have their long hair tied back; the men are darker skinned, with long shaggy hair, and are wearing loin-cloths; two carry tall bows and arrows, one in the centre carries a tall staff. The paper mount has "Veddahs - Ceylon" written on the lower margin in pencil in the same hand as that on the undated and unattributed photos of Veddahs reproduced in 'Affinities and Origin of the Australian and Polynesian Races' vol. 1, though this is not reproduced there.The hand is may be a variant of A. R. Wallace's or that of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy; see letter WP1/1/163, from A. R. Wallace to WGW 15 Dec 1898 with postscript from Annie Wallace re photos from Ceylon. 9. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned on the print "Port Darwin Native. 6[0]5."; head and naked upper torso portrait of a young Australian native man wearing a grass skirt and headband, seated, facing camera, with crossed arms; found when listed with item 10 below in a paper folder made from a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil "Australians" in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand; not published in "Studies" but other photos of Australian natives are and this may have been considered and rejected. 10. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned on the print " A Darling River Native. 6[9]6"; full length photograph of an old bearded Australian native man naked to the waist and holding a spear? in one hand and throwing stick? in the other; standing outside a wurly (native shelter) inside which a seated dog is partly visible; found when listed with item 9 above in a paper folder made from a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil "Australians" in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand; not published in "Studies" but other photos of Australian natives are and this may have been considered and rejected. 11. Paper folder labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Duplicate Proofs | Duplicates", (old ref WP2/16/34) made from folded proofsheet of black and white images of Sentinel Rock and Virgins's Tears waterfall, Yosemite National Park USA reproduced as figs 3 and 4 in "Studies Scientific and Social", containing 4 proof sheets with versions of 5 images reproduced in "Studies Scientific and Social" comprising "El Capitan" (fig. 2), two of King Charles' Bird of Paradise (Parotia carolae, fig. 63) one annotated "Pull to show tonehing" [sic; Toning?] and one "Duplicate", one of the Fern-bearing Bird of Paradise ( Pteridophora alberti, fig. 64), and a double page with images of a man and woman of Samoa (figs 57 and 58) with annotations including "3 Photographs returned to Mr Coles, Royal Geographical Socy 1.12.98". Other proofs of each of these images are in WP6/6/1 (re 'Inaccessible Valleys') WP6/6/6 (re 'The Polynesians and their Migrations' ) and WP6/6/7 (re 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants').

NHM-WP07.043.[05]    Printed:    1898   "Justice, not Charity, as the fundamental principle of social reform" small pamphlet printed for private circulation, 14 pp plus front and back matter.

NHM-WP07.056.[01]    Printed:    [1898]   Printed [page proofs?] of "Mr Wallace on Physiological Selection" by George J Romanes, pp. [1]-18, annotated at top of first page in WGW's? hand in pencil "Duplicate sent to Author" and in ink "Private & Confidential"; marginal notes and underlining in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand; Both (056.01 and 056.02) in a folder made from a 1908 envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace from the RS, labelled on back in A. R. Wallace's (and WGW's?) hand "Wallace and Romanes. | Physiological selection" (See also corrected proofs of a review by T D A Cockerell, 1898, of a book on Darwinism by G J Romanes, in WP12). Notes: Although the work by Romanes is obviously NOT strictly in this category the two papers obviously belong together and so have been put here. Smith bibliog: S389. Romanes Versus Darwin. An Episode in the History of the Evolution Theory. Fortnightly Review 40 (n.s.; 46, o.s.): 300-316 (1 Sept. 1886: no. 237, n.s.).

NHM-WP12.014    Draft:    1898   Corrected proofs of a review by T D A Cockerell, 1898, of "Darwin, and after Darwin. III. Post-Darwinian Questions, Isolation and Physiological Selection" by the late G J Romanes (Chicago 1897); 2 folios, the first annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "Review by Cockerell". Notes: When listed filed in box 2 with papers in a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and print.

S551a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1898. The Burmese Lily (Lilium ochroleucum.). The Garden 54 (no. 1402, 1 Oct. 1898): 259.   Text   Image

WSPEC179    Periodical contribution:     Hartert, Ernst. 1898. List of a collection of birds made in the Sula Islands by William Doherty. Novitates Zoologicae 5 (2): 125-136   PDF

WSPEC351.26    Book:     Sharpe, R.Bowdler & Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. 1898. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 26: Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes. London: Trustees of the British Museum.

NHM-WP01.006    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel  1899--1910   Letters from Fred Birch: Letters and postcards from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace and an enclosed? photograph, comprising one letter from Liverpool 1899, 4 letters and 2 postcards from Brazil Jan-Dec 1910, 1 envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's or WGW's hand and one 1899 photograph of Fred Birch. Frederick Birch lived in Liverpool as a young man and may have been born there. He apparently met A. R. Wallace some time in the 1890's and later emigrated with his wife to Brazil, where he worked as a professional collector of natural history specimens c. 1910. No other information about him has been found. Place: Brazil Liverpool England

NHM-WP07.052.[05]    Note:    1899   Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Safety for Powder Magazines | To the Editor of the Daily News" Undated, 3 folios of lined exercise book paper, signed. (Found further down pile and inserted here). 1 piece. (SEE SMITH S562a. The Storage of Gunpowder [letter to the Editor referring to Wallace's c1882 idea that explosives might safely be stored under water]. The Daily Chronicle (London) no. 11562: 11c (24 March 1899).