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2851. |
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.
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2852. |
NHM-WP15.002.005
Printed:
1895
Reid, Clement, "On charred pine-wood from Dorset peat mosses" reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, vol. XVI, pp. 14-16, 1895. Place: Dorset England Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author.
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2853. | |
2854. |
WSPEC351.27
Book:
Salvadori, T. 1895. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 27: Chenomorphae, Crypturi, and Ratitae. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
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2855. |
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.
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2856. |
NHM-WP15.002.006
Printed:
1896
Reid, Clement, "The early Neolithic kitchen-midden and tufaceous deposit at Blashenwell, near Corfe Castle" reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, vol. XVII, pp. 67-75, 1896. Place: Dorset England Notes: Sent to William Mitten by the author - see WP1/14/18
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2857. |
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
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2864. | |
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2866. |
WSPEC351.24
Book:
Sharpe, R.Bowdler. 1896. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 24: Limicolae. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
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2867. |
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
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2868. |
NHM-WP04.003
Photo:
[1897--1900]
Photos of A. R. Wallace's house "Corfe View", Parkstone, Dorset, c. 1897?, with envelope. Place: Parkstone Dorset England
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2869. |
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.
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2870. |
NHM-WP04.003.002
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 showing a view apparently of the back of a three storey brick house, 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. This is a slightly smaller and better focussed image of print WP4/3/1 (A. R. Wallace's house "Corfe View") faded on the right, showing slightly less of the view on the right and slightly more on the left. There are no annotations. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Placed in secol sleeve 17/4/03 PJL. 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.
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2871. |
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.
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2872. |
NHM-WP04.004
Note:
[1897--1900]
Papers re A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" at Broadstone, Dorset, including plans, elevations, sketched views, rough ground plans, photographs, postcards and accounts. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: Found in Box 4 of the material as delivered, incorrectly identified in broad box list as plans of Parkstone house. Identified from photograph of the house in A. R. Wallace's "My Life" vol.2; plans 1 and 2 dated from letters by A. R. Wallace to his children on the subject. Though the drawings have not title as such "Parkstone" on the sheet indicates A. R. Wallace's address at the time the plans were drawn up, not the address of the house to be built. Conservation: Plan 1, very damaged and brittle, 5; copy, in better condition but needs to be unfolded, 4; other pieces 2.
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2874. |
NHM-WP17.013.[01]
Photo:
[1897--1899]
Undated sepia photograph approximately 15 cm x 10.5 cm showing a profile 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
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2875. |
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
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2876. |
NHM-WP17.013.[03]
Photo:
[1897--1899]
Small folder made from blue-green letter paper labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW'S? hand (or both) on one side "Photos | Darwins Statue | Stillmans House | &c" and on the other "Darwins Statue | The Museum - Oxford -"; when listed it enclosed the 2 photos of a statue of Charles Darwin above, a photograph of W J Stillman, and other unrelated photos, print and Ms, (Old refs WP3/53-62) which have been relocated. 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
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2879. |
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."
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2880. |
BL-Add.Mss46418-46419
Draft:
1898
Autograph draft for "The Wonderful Century" (1898). Vols. V, VI (ff.249, 231). 'The Wonderful Century', first version published 1898. Insertions in the printed text suggest that this MS. was completed before 18 Feb. 1898. Preface, etc., index, and chapter 18, 'Vaccination a Delusion, its Penal Enforcement a Crime', are wanting; a note in Wallace's hand on 46419, f. 126, directs the printer to set up Chapter 18 from a pamphlet, presumably that produced by Wallace in 1897. Autograph draft showing revision and rearrangement by the author and printer's marks.
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2881. |
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.
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2882. |
NHM-WP02.006.003.02
Correspondence:
Macdonald E? Miss
1898--1914
Letter from Miss E? Macdonald to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914 enclosing copies in Miss Macdonald's hand of seven letters from A. R. Wallace to her, 1898-1912, may have time to copy more later in the term; envelope addressed in Miss Macdonald's hand to Violet Wallace, Old Orchard Broadstone, Dorset, stamped, postmarked Sheffield 20 Jan 1914; annotated on the front in ink in another hand (WGW's?) "A.R.W. to Miss Macdonald". Copy letters comprise:
1898.01.23 From Parkstone, Dorset 23 Jan 1898 thanking her for a gift of shortbread on his birthday, which he unfortunately cannot eat but others will appreciate.
1906.12.25 From Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset) 25 Dec 1906 thanking her for gift of an almanack and wishing her a happy new year
1908.02.21 From Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset) 21 Feb 1908 thanking her for the new year gift of an almanack; apologies for lateness, due to not knowing where she went for her holidays; weather; his daughter Violet's lack of work.
1908.12.26 From Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne 26 Dec 1908 thanking her for her Christmas present; description of his investiture with Order of Merit at home by the King's equerry Colonel Legge; intends to wear it once in public at a lecture he is to give at the Royal Institution "on the world of life" on 22 Jan 1909, offers tickets for herself and a friend.
1909.02.28 From Old Orchard Broadstone Wimborne (Dorset) 28 Feb 1909 re a press cutting sent by her on the spiritualist medium consulted by (Abraham) Lincoln; an American book recently published on Lincoln's spiritualism.
1911.12.24 From Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset 24 Dec 1911 thanking her for the gift of a book by G K Chesterton; A. R. Wallace's and Chesterton's appreciation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; Christmas greetings.
1912.12.26 From Old Orchard Broadstone Dorset 26 Dec 1912 thanking her for the gift of a book; has just finished writing "Social Environment and Moral Purpose" which he thinks will interest her; quotes from a 1905 postcard re fate of nations in the new year Place: Sheffield Yorkshire England Notes: Although the copies were made c 1914 the first date in each case has been recorded as the date of the original letter. These were sent to Violet after her father's death, and were probably provided to assist James Marchant in writing "Letters and Reminiscences..." (1916); and have been included in this series on that assumption. At first listing they were among apparently unrelated papers in original box 2.
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2883. |
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').
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2884. |
NHM-WP07.043.[04]
Printed:
1898
"Spiritualism and Social Duty" by A. R. Wallace; pamphlet, reprint from "Light" of his address to the International Congress of Spiritualists, 23 Jun 1898. See WP7/81 for another copy.
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2885. |
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.
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2886. |
NHM-WP07.043.[06]
Printed:
1898
"New Thoughts on Evolution, being the views of [A. R. Wallace] as gathered in an interview by Harold Begbie", re the possibility of Creation not being inconsistent with Evolution; reprint from "The Daily Chronicle", small pamphlet with red cover, no date (originally published in the Daily Chronicle Nov 1910, see Shermer p. 388)
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2887. |
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.).
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2888. |
NHM-WP07.056.[02]
Printed:
[1898]
Printed [page proofs?] of "Romanes versus Darwin. An episode in the history of evolution and its theory", by A. R. Wallace, pp. [300] - 316.[S389: Fortnightly Review 40 (n.s.; 46, o.s.): 300-316 (1 Sept. 1886: no. 237, n.s.)] . 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.).
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2889. |
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.
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2890. |
NHM-WP12.015
Printed:
1898
Reprint, "Eleventh Lecture | The Elimination of the Unfit as illustrated by the introduced sparrow, Passer domesticus" by Hermon C Bumpus 1898; annotated by A. R. Wallace. Notes: Source for Bumpus: www.rpts.tamu.edu/pugsley/Bumpus.htm
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2895. |
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.
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2896. |
NHM-WP12.004
Printed:
1898?
Reprint of the appendix to Herbert Spencer, (1864, 67, second edn 1898-99) "Principles of Biology", consisting of a letter originally written by him on alleged spontaneous generation to the North American Review in Dec 1868: reprint undated, c 1898? some marking in blue pencil and a marginal comment in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand.
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2897. |
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
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2898. |
NHM-WP01.006.009
Figure:
1899
Portrait of Fred Birch aged about 20, wearing a flat cap, short jacket and rucksack, carrying a fabric bag and walking stick. Standing in front of a picket fence with houses in the background. Body turned to the viewer's left, head turned to face the camera. Black and white photo approximately 9.5 cm x 7 cm inside an embossed cream cardboard frame approximately 16 cm x 14 cm. Frame annotated on the back in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand Fred. Birch. | July 1899." Place and photographer unknown. Notes: Filed when listed with unrelated photos and proofs from works by A. R. Wallace; transferred to this series as most appropriate; possibly an enclosure to letter from Liverpool 16 Nov 1899.
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2899. |
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).
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2900. |
NHM-WP07.084.[01]
Printed:
1899
Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 1. "Journal of the Society for Psychical Research" no CLVI Vol IX, Feb 1899, front cover signed by A. R. Wallace and annotated in his hand "Wallace on Podmore" containing long letter pp. 22-30 by A. R. Wallace on Frank Podmore and poltergeists. Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.
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