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2. Photographic print? approx. 14 cm x 18 cm on card approx. 17
cm x 22.5 cm titled ''North Dome and Washington Column'',
reproduced as fig. 7, p. 23.
3. Seven proof sheets? the first six approx. 19 cm x 14.5 cm with
central images approx. 12 cm x 9 cm; held together with brass
clip, sheets numbered, titled and in some cases annotated in Alfred
Russel Wallace's? hand, showing figs 1 -7 inclusive comprising :
1. The Water Slide, Doone Valley
2. El Capitan, (Yosemite valley, California USA)
3. Sentinel Rock ditto
4. Virgin Tears Waterfall ditto
5. Govett's Leap, Blue Mountains NSW, Australia
6. The view from Govett's leap ditto, annotated ''from Vice
Admiral Maclear's album''
7. The North Dome, Yosemite Valley (sheet approx. 17.5 cm x
12.5 cm with image approx. 14 cm x 10 cm)
Name: Maclear, John Fiot Lee Pearse, 1838-1907
Place: Australia Devon England California USA
WP6/6/2 Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
Annotated photos and proof sheets of images illustrating 'The Ice
Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets.', in Alfred
Russel Wallace, ''Studies Scientific and Social'', (London 1900)
vol. 1, Ch. IV, pp. 59-93, figs. 9-22, all black and white except
where noted, 19 in total comprising:
1. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image
approx. 9 cm x 5.5 cm of a boulder-strewn plain, annotated in
pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''Fig. 1.| Surface of part of
Great terminal Moraine'' ( Fig. 9 in vol. 1, unattributed.)
2. Ditto with photographic image approx. 9.5 cm x 7 cm of a lake
with mountains in the background and a house or farm buildings
in a boulder-strewn landscape in the foreground, annotated in
pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''Fig 2'' (Fig. 10, vol. 1,
unattributed, captioned ''Moraines at Easedale Tarn''.)
3. Photographic print approx. 21 cm x 15.5 cm apparently used
for the production of Fig. 10 above; black and white but with
clouds behind mountains painted in watercolour in white with
touches of yellow (or dirt); annotations on the back in pencil
include ''16585 | 098 E | S | 93 mm | Easedale Tarn. Grasmere.''
4. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image
approx. 9.5 cm x 5.5 of large boulders among vegetation including
three upright leafless tree or grass stems. annotated in Alfred
Russel Wallace's hand in pencil ''Fig. 3'' (Fig. 11, vol.1, captioned
''Roches Moutonées in Idaho, USA'', attributed US Geological
Survey.)
5. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image
approx. 10 cm x 7 cm showing five men seated in a rocky
landscape with a mallet in the foreground, annotated in pencil in
Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ''Fig. 4''. (Fig 12, vol. 1, captioned
''Striated Rock Surface at Wasdale Crag'', attributed Godfrey
Bingley.)
6. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image
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