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showing a woman of Samoa; annotations in ink and pencil in
Alfred Russel Wallace's hand include ''Feb. 1893. Col. Swinton'',
numbered ''58'' in blue pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's?
WGW's? hand. Reproduced in vol. 1, p. 414, fig. 58, attributed to
the Royal Geographical Society.
Name: J. Horsburgh & Son, 1889-1898
Place: Edinburgh Scotland Hawaii Tahiti
WP6/6/7 Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
2 photos and 12 annotated proof sheets? of black and white
photographic and woodcut or metal engraved images from approx.
8.5 cm x 7.5 cm to 10 cm x 15.5 cm in size illustrating 'New
Guinea and its Inhabitants', in Alfred Russel Wallace, ''Studies
Scientific and Social'', (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch. XX, pp. 416-
460, figs 59-71; most annotated back and front in lead pencil
and/or ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's and other? hands, some with
the figure number as finally published in blue pencil in Alfred
Russel Wallace's? WGW's? hand; comprising (fig. numbers and
attributions as given in the publication):
1. Proof: Cuscus orientalis, engraving or woodcut, fig. 59,
attributed Zoological Society
2. Proof: Dactylopsila trivirigata (striped possum); sheet stamped
on the back ''Richard Clay & Sons, Limited. Bread Street Hill E.C.
27 Nov. 1899''; engraving or woodcut, fig. 60, attributed Semon
3. Proof: Distoechurus pinnatus ( feather-tailed possum) engraving
or woodcut, fig. 61, attributed Semon
4. Proof: Tree Kangaroo and New Guinea Birds, engraving or
woodcut, fig. 62, from Alfred Russel Wallace's ''Geographical
Distribution of Animals''
5. Proof: King Charles' Bird of Paradise, Parotia Carolae,
engraving or woodcut, fig. 63, attributed A B Meyer
6. Proof: Fern-bearing Bird of paradise, Pteridophora alberti,
engraving or woodcut, fig. 64, attributed A B Meye
7. Proof: Rothschild's Bird of Paradise, Astrapia splendidissima,
engraving or woodcut, fig. 65 attributed Sharpe
8. Proof: Prince Rupert's Bird of Paradise, Paradisornis rudolphi,
engraving or woodcut, fig. 66 attributed Sharpe
9. Proof: Papuans, South-West New Guinea, photographic image
showing 4 Papuan men on a rocky beach, three sitting and one
standing, facing camera; annotations in lead and blue pencil
include ''68'' and ''67 not got proof''; fig. 68, attributed Admiral
Maclear.
10. Proof: Papuan of New Hebrides, photographic image showing
head and naked torso of a bearded Papuan man standing against a
tree trunk looking to the viewer's left, fig. 69, unattributed.
11. Proof: Native of Api, New Hebrides, oval photographic image
showing to the waist a short-haired beardless man in profile
looking to the viewer's right, wearing a patterned shirt and seated
in a wooden chair; ''Toby'' can be seen in white on the print. Fig.
70, undated (1874?) attributed Challenger expedition.
12.Photograph, sepia oval print on rectangular paper, showing to
the waist a short-haired beardless man in profile looking to the
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