WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

current scarcity of insects near Neath; arrival of lepidoptera from a
friend in Georgia, USA, including sketch of Bombyx (moth);
death of lepidoptera larvae collected.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales Georgia USA
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 16
WP1/3/19 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to Dr Bates, from Neath, 11
Oct 1847 re trip to London and Paris; describing the architecture,
museums, galleries and boulevardes of Paris; the layout and
operation of the Jardin des Plantes including a sketched section
showing cabinets and cases in its museum of mineralogy; study of
insects at the British Museum to name his collection of American
coleoptera; desire to take one family and study thoroughly with
regard to the theory of the origin of species; Ray Society; Oken's
''Elements of physiophilosophy'' and variety, distribution and
arrangement of species.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Oken, Lorenz, 1779-1851
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 17. 4 folios.First folio annotated
on front in blue pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ''See near
End''; sections mentioning origin of species marked or underlined
in the same blue pencil.
WP1/3/20 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Edward Wallace (Herbert Edward) to Richard Spruce,
from Serpa, 29 Dec 1850, re waiting for a passage to England;
clothes left at Barra to be forwarded; speculation on Spruce's
plans, regards to Mr King.
Name: Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Antony, Henrique
Joaquim, Manuel
King, Robert
Place: Serpa Pinto Brazil
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 19. Addressed ''Dear Sir'',
annotated in red pencil in an unknown hand ''To Dr Spruce'' and in
lead pencil, possibly in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''H.E.W. to
Dr Spruce Dec 1850''
WP1/3/21 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Edward Wallace (Herbert Edward) to R Spruce, from
Barra, 15 Mar 1850?, re arrival at and living conditions in Barra,
including a doggerel verse.
Name: Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
King, Robert
Place: Barra Brazil
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11 Oct 1847
29 Dec 1850
[15 Mar 1850]
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