WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Lepidoptera to Mr May in Rio; considering moving to Caravellas
or Peruhype, quotes a letter from Mr Scofield recommending both
areas as ideal sites for insect collecting, will write to Eugenis?
Reiche about housing; describes capture and photographing of a
sloth which bit him through the thumb, sloth's fur infested with
many small moths similar to Depressaria; thanks for copies of
N.A. (''The New Age''; wheat planted according to Cotton's
methods thriving.
Name: Birch, Frederick R, fl 1897-1910
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Scofield, ?, fl 1910
Reiche, Eugenis?, fl 1910
Cotton, Sir Arthur Thomas, knight,1903-1899
New Age, The, 1907-1922
Place: Brazil
WP1/6/8 Letters from Fred Birch
Brown envelope, very torn and brittle, annotated in Alfred Russel
Wallace's or WGW's? hand ''Fred. Birch's latest letters (to
Dec?1910.)'' which contained the letters and postcards from Fred
Birch to Alfred Russel Wallace from Brazil, 1899 and 1910, when
received at the NHM.
Notes: Included because of the annotation but could probably be
destroyed. PJL March 2003.
WP1/6/9 Letters from Fred Birch
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 Alfred Russel Wallace's
hand Fred. Birch. | July 1899.'' Place and photographer unknown.
Name: Birch, Frederick R, fl 1897-1910
Notes: Filed when listed with unrelated photos and proofs from
works by Alfred Russel Wallace; transferred to this series as most
appropriate; possibly an enclosure to letter from Liverpool 16 Nov
1899.
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undated
1899
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