NHM-WP15.003    Printed:    1906--1907   Printed Obituaries and memoirs of William Mitten 1906 and 1907, by W B Hemsley, E M Holmes and W E Nicholson

S623ab    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1906. Letter [to Raphael Meldola]. In: Christy, Miller. 1906. Presentation to Mr. William Cole: a report. Essex Naturalist 14: 117-135, on p. 125.   Text   Image

WSPEC189    Book:     Thomas, O. 1906. I. Mammals. Vol. 2, pp. 3-66 In [Lankester, E.R., ed.]. The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. 2. Separate historical accounts of the several collections included in the Department of Zoology. [i-iii], [1]-782. London.   PDF

NHM-WP01.007.009    Note:    1906?   "Dream Gardens " by "Duan Utan" (Sydney Skertchly?) from Journ. Hort. Aust. vol I, (1906) p. 50; Ms copy possibly made at a later date, in Skertchly's hand, seven folios; envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Skertchley's [sic] 'Dream Gardens' a delightful rhapsody, of memoirs of 'Gardens' in many lands." Place: Australia Notes: Sketch by "Duan Utan" was earlier assigned to series of works by writers other than A. R. Wallace and appended to this item 21 Jan 2004. PJL

BL-Add.Mss46428    Draft:    1907.10   Autograph draft for "Is Mars habitable" (1907). Vol. XV (ff . 259). 'Is Mars Habitable?', published 1907. Viz.:- (a) Autograph draft, apparently completed 1-19 October 1907, and wanting frontispiece, last paragraph of the preface, and the letter from J. H. Poynting printed on

NHM-WP01.001.120    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Part of a rough plan in ink, apparently an outline of rooms or house, ("Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset?) marked "N.E. (corridor?)", drawn on one side of a piece of linen paper apparently cut from a map; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered in [120] pencil by PJL 2002. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

NHM-WP01.001.122    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Two plans in pencil on one sheet of translucent waxed paper, 40cm X 24 cm, showing house rooms, marked "Ground floor" and "Upper floor" respectively, with annotations in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand. Probably of "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [122] in pencil by PJL 2002. Condition Good but fragile because of nature of paper. Folded several times. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

NHM-WP01.001.124    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Skeels E R S,  [1907]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William, from Broadstone, Dorset, Friday (April 5 1907?) re visit to lawyer in Chancery Lane and asking William to reserve hotel rooms. Place: Dorset England Notes: On a small sheet of folded paper. Annotated in pencil in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand "April 5/07"

NHM-WP06.009    Note:    1907   Papers re Is Mars Habitable? Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1907, "Is Mars Habitable", (Macmillan and Co. London 1907) including corrected proofs, a letter and 2 envelopes in which papers were stored when listed.

NHM-WP15.003.002    Printed:    1907   Obituary of William Mitten by E M Holmes, reprinted from The South-Eastern Naturalist 1907 in The Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 1907. Includes photographic portrait of Mitten standing, bearded, wearing a tweed suit and velvet smoking cap, holding a plant and magnifying glass, with a rose hedge in the background. (First copy of 2).

S648a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1907. Letter [regarding "Root principles in rational and spiritual things" by Rev. Thomas Child]. In: Trobridge, George. 1907. Emmanuel Swedenborg: his life, teachings and influence. London & New York: Frederick Warne and Company, pp. 63-64.   Text   Image

NHM-WP08.003.001    Note:    1907?--1907?   Translucent brown envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "A few letters of 'Spruce' | Some written some copied." undated. c.1907? Notes: This envelope contained not letters by or to Spruce but 2 folios of ms notes by A. R. Wallace on corrections to maps, and for this reason has been treated as a separate piece. Enclosed when listed in a brown envelope postmarked "9 Sep 90" (1990) addressed to Mr & Mrs R. R. Wallace, with address crossed through, labelled in Richard Wallace's hand "Corrections to Map | Equatorial S America"; destroyed 15/10/03

BM-2004,0107.22-Coins-Medals    Miscellaneous:    1908   Plaster model for the obverse of a medal, showing Bust of Alfred Russell Wallace to front, bearded. Inscribed LINN: SOC: LONDON: 1858-1908 WALLACE and F. BOWCHER 1908. Diameter 174 mm, thickness 16 mm

NHM-WP01.008.021    Correspondence:   Brierley Wynford  1908   Circular hand-made card "Life is a Spiral" from Wynford Brierley, congratulating A. R. Wallace on his Order of Merit, 9 Nov 1908

NHM-WP07.102.003    Printed:    1908   Journal "The Socialist Review: A Monthly Review of Modern Thought", vol. 1 no 4, Jun 1908 (The Independent Labour Party, London); including "The Remedy for Unemployment - I" by A. R. Wallace, pp. 310-320, approx 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm with red cover; signed on the front cover, top right, Alfred R Wallace. Notes: See Old ref WP2/24, containing part 2

NHM-WP08.003.003    Draft:    1908   Ten proof sheets of maps of the Amazon corrected and annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand, some with date stamps from Mar-Oct 1908, all in an envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, postmarked 7 Jan 1909, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink on the back "Maps | Used in Spruce's 'Notes' | Showing Stanfords almost incredible repeated blunders!" Notes: Formerly among unrelated papers. Maps need unfolding and larger container

NHM-WP08.003.007    Note:    1908--1908   Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Journey of Richard Spruce in Equatorial America . . . An introduction to 'Hepaticae Amazonicae… Revue Bryologique 1886 [sic] (part) Translated from the French by A . R. Wallace" , 25 pages on 7 folded folios of lined blue paper; Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand "Notes by Two German botanists on the Pastaza River and Canelos region", 4 unnumbered pages (1 folio) of the same type of paper; all in a small brown envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked Bristol 26 Nov 1906, annotated on the back in ink, and lead and blue pencil in A. R. Wallace (and WGW's?) hand "Spruce | My own Translation of the French 'Precis d'un Voyage'| Also notes by 2 German Botanists in April 1894".

NHM-WP11.001.[02]    Note:    1908--1909   "Today's Centenaries | Charles Darwin" by A. R. Wallace, a version of the Ms above; press cutting from "The Daily Mail" 12 Feb 1909; full page, with a piece by H Perry Robinson on the centenary of the death of Abraham Lincoln is printed in the next column.

NHM-WP11.001.[04]    Note:    1908--1909   "Today's Centenaries | Charles Darwin" by A. R. Wallace, a version of the Ms above; press cutting from "The Daily Mail" 12 Feb 1909; another copy

NHM-WP11.001.[06]    Note:    1908--1909   Note/folder in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink on one side "Daily Mail | Centenary of Darwin" and inside in blue pencil "2 Duplicates | Exchange for Part 21 not sent …", probably at some time enclosing the mss Biographical notes on Charles Darwin, No 1 above.

NHM-WP12.026    Printed:    1908   Press cutting, re the faults of socialism, n.d., marked up in blue, of part (no end or beginning) of a letter to the Editor?; in envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "Letter in Clarion for April 3d 1908 | From a noncon. Minister. | Stating objections to 'Socialism' very well & clearly - but all answered in 'Bellamy' | Revd S. Skelborn, Mt Pleasant, Congregational Church - Glossop."

S649a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1908. Comments on the possible immortality of man's body. Daily News (4 January): 6.   Text

WSPEC219    Periodical contribution:     Burr, Malcolm. 1908. IV. Notes on the Forficularia. X. A revision of the Nesogastrinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) 1: 42-47.   PDF

WSPEC319    Periodical contribution:     Distant, W.L. 1908. Rhynchota Malayana, part III. Records of the Indian Museum 5:313-338.   PDF

NHM-WP09.006    Note:    1909   Papers re lectures on Darwinism