Search: 1890-1899::1899::11 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 21–27 of 27 items

Text Online

WCP460

From:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 November 1899
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/6/1(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/6/1(2)
Summary:

Thanking ARW for past help and reporting on his own life and thoughts over the past year including a camping trip in Llanferris, flora and fauna near River Alyn, geology of local rivers, collecting moths and mosses; cycling in Pennine hills; visit from Harold Sayler; winter clothing and exercise; L. S. Mosley's Economic Museum in Huddersfield, Mosley's involvement with Naturalist's Journal; camping and collecting insects in Delamere Forest Cheshire, names of some beetles and moths collected; trips along Welsh rivers; reading on ethnology and the tropics in anticipation of going there, lists authors including Humboldt, Bell, H. H. Higgins, Ernst Haeckel and Huxley, praises Mary Kingsley; praises practical learning and self-sufficiency; desire to learn, frustration of work restricting time available; a friend at Ladysmith, (Boer) war; secretaryship of Lancs and Cheshire entomological Society; photography of natural objects.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4662

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1 November 1899
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5668

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
17 November 1899
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6967

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
13 November 1899
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6969

From:
Randolph Iltyd Geare
To:
William Henry Holmes
Date:
24 November 1899
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP7076

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Percy Fry Kendall
Date:
2 November 1899
Source of text:
Bradford Museums & Galleries: Kendall & Wroot 485-486
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP818

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert
Date:
26 November 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM TM1-47-9-126
Summary:

Asks for information re. number of species of birds now known for New Guinea incl. islands close to it - Waigiou, Sahratty + Aru islands, separating the land and the water birds; just a rough estimate; is comparing the ornithological richness of New Guinea with other larger islands and countries. Also numbers for Papuan Islands as a whole, say from Mysol to New Britain.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available