WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

purchase of Shuckard's ''Coleoptera''.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Shuckard, William Edward, 1803-1868.
Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 12
WP1/3/15 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to H W Bates, from Neath, 13
Oct 1845 re exchange of insect specimens with list of those
recently collected and wanted; difference between Donacia
Impressa and D. linearis; design of an insect cabinet; Mr Kirby's
cabinet; Ray Society; butterfly Colias hyale.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Kirby, William, 1759-1850
Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 13. Accompanying loose note
(destroyed) in Sandra Knapp's hand c. 2001/2 : ''Model for design
of insect cabinet | Alfred Russel Wallace to H W Bates 13th Oct
1845''. (Emma Bennett, personal info 19/12/02.)
WP1/3/16 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to Henry Bates, from Neath, 9
Nov 1845 re arrival of beetles from Bates; design and cost of
insect cabinets and storage boxes; ''Vestiges of the natural history
of Creation''.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 14
WP1/3/17 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to H Bates, from Neath, 28 Dec
1845 re insect cabinets and boxes; opinion of ''Vestiges of the
natural history of Creation'', the progressive development of
species, Lawrence's lectures on Man, Pritchard's physical history
of man, distinction between species and varieties in man,
Humboldt's ''Cosmos''.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
Lawrence, William
Pritchard, James C
Humboldt, Alexander von, Baron, 1769-1859
Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 15. 2 folios
WP1/3/18 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter to H Bates from Neath, Aug 1846 (no day date) re lack of
response to sending of insects and letter two months earlier;
106
13 Oct 1845
9 Nov 1845
28 Dec 1845
Aug 1846
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