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approx. 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing a young boy in flat cap and short<br />

trousers seated in a rocky landscape, annotated in pencil in ARW's<br />

hand '' Fig 5.'' (Fig. 13 in vol. 1, captioned ''Rock Groovings at<br />

Barmouth'', attributed Percy F Kendall.)<br />

7. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image<br />

approx. 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing grooved and fissured rocks,<br />

annotated in pencil in <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s? hand ''Fig. 6''.<br />

(Fig. 14 in vol 1. captioned ''Rock Groovings Near Barmouth''<br />

attributed to ''an unknown friend''.<br />

8. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image<br />

approx. 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing a landscape with a road and<br />

grassy plain in the foreground and hills in the far background with<br />

a windmill? cairn? at middle right, annotated in pencil in <strong>Alfred</strong><br />

<strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s? hand ''Fig. 6 [sic]. (Fig. 15 in vol. 1, captioned<br />

''Moraine at Specton'', attributed Mr Kendall.)<br />

9. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx 15 cm x 10.5 cm<br />

showing chalk cliffs at the edge of the sea, annotated in pencil in<br />

<strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s hand ''Fig. 7 | Scandinavian Ice sheet.<br />

Terminal Moraine''. (Fig 16, vol 1, captioned ''Boulder clay on<br />

chalk, Flamborough Head'', attributed Mr Bingley.<br />

10. Proof sheet? with photographic image approx 10 cm x 7 cm<br />

showing sharply peaked cliffs with stony beach in the foreground,<br />

no annotations. (Fig. 17, vol. 1, captioned ''Boulder Clay on Upper<br />

Oolite, Yorkshire'', attributed Mr Bingley).<br />

11. Photographic print 15.5 cm x 11 cm mounted on slightly larger<br />

card; annotations on the back in pencil in an unknown hand<br />

include ''12503- | Swan Sonnenschein [o/n] 459 | [Tuesday]'' and<br />

on the front in ink in <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s? hand ''Glacial Drift<br />

on Oolite, Yorkshire coast.'' <strong>The</strong> purple stamp of Godfrey Bingley,<br />

Thornichurst, Headingley, Leeds, is faintly visible showing<br />

through from the back at top left of the print. Apparently used to<br />

produce fig. 17, vol. 1.<br />

12. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image<br />

approx. 5 cm x 5 cm showing a boulder with inclusions, annotated<br />

in pencil in <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s? hand ''Fig. 9'' (Fig 18, vol. 1,<br />

captioned ''A Scandinavian Boulder found in Yorkshire'',<br />

attributed Mr Kendall.<br />

13. Sepia photographic print approx. 5 cm x 5 cm showing a<br />

boulder with inclusions, apparently used to produce fig. 18, vol. 1.<br />

14. Small proof sheet? or part of one with photographic image<br />

approx. 10 cm x 7 cm showing a dark boulder perched on a<br />

smaller pale one in a landscape with mountains in the far<br />

background; annotated in <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s? hand in pencil<br />

''Fig. 10. (Fig. 19 in vol 1, captioned ''Silurian Erratic on<br />

Limestone, Ingleborough'', attributed Mr Kendall.)<br />

15. Sepia photo approximately 15.5 cm x 11 cm mounted on<br />

slightly larger card, showing a large dark boulder among smaller<br />

limestone rocks in a field with rolling hills in the distance.<br />

Captioned on the card in ink in <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s? hand<br />

''Erratic - Millstone Grit on Limestone.'' Faint pencil annotations in<br />

the same hand are on the top edge of the card and the purple stamp<br />

of Godfrey Bingley, Thornichurst, Headingley, Leeds, is faintly<br />

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