WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

WP16/3/3 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re sale of ARW's library
One folio CC, headed ''Dr. Wallace's Library'', p. 3; duplicate copy
of p. 3 of 10 in a list of Alfred Russel Wallace's books (see
WP16/3/2)
Name: Wallace, William Greenell, 1871-1951
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
WP16/4 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re sale of bird skins
Papers 1949-1950 re the sale of skins of Birds of Paradise collected
by Alfred Russel Wallace, including correspondence between
William Greenell Wallace and the BMNH, the University Museum
Oxford, and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
Place: New Guinea
WP16/4/1 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re sale of bird skins
Letter to Colonel C F Fraser, Bournemouth, from H W Parker,
BMNH, London 28 Sep 1949, re Fraser's enquiry about the sale and
value of bird of paradise skins collected by Alfred Russel Wallace;
BMNH alread has an adequate collection, suggests trying a dealer
such as Rosenberg; annotated by WGW.
Name: British Museum (Natural History)
Parker, Hampton Wildman, 1897-1968
Fraser, F C, fl 1949
Rosenberg, William Frederik Henry, 1868-1957
Kinnear, Norman Boyd, 1882-1957
Place: Bournemouth Dorset England London England
WP16/4/2 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re sale of bird skins
Letter to William Greenell Wallace from H Bench Usher, BMNH
Bird Section, London 10 Nov 1949 re sale of Alfred Russel
Wallace's Bird of Paradise skins; BMNH has no sale catalogue
available, suggests WGW advertise in the Museums Journal;
annotated by WGW.
Name: British Museum (Natural History)
Usher, Harold Bench, b, 1893
Place: London England
WP16/4/3 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re sale of bird skins
Letter to William Greenell Wallace from A C Hardy, Dept of
Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford,
21 Oct 1949, re the sale of skins of Birds of Paradise collected by
Alfred Russel Wallace; Mr Tucker, curator of birds, is ill and
unavailable, Hardy feels skins probably not wanted, but would like
to know asking price.
Name: University Museum Oxford
Hardy, Sir Alister Clavering, 1896-1985
Tucker, Mr, fl 1949
Place: Oxford
WP16/4/4 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re sale of bird skins
List in William Greenell Wallace's hand headed ''Bird of Paradise
Skins'', undated (c. 1949?), ink on blue paper, listing 5 Pirds of
375
1913?-1914?
1949-1950
28 Sep 1949
1949.11.10
1949.10.21
1949?
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