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WCP1464

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
18 November 1894
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/264
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 346
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 62]
Summary:

ARW states that CR's remarks about the snails are very interesting; mentions the "old boys" bones, c. 9-10 years old, ask the Pitt-Rivers Museum to put the cranium together for the Dorchester Museum. Also mentions a great discovery of Miocene or Pliocene man in India and flints found in situ. "Hurrah for the Missing Link!".

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WCP1465

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
12 May 1895
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/265
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 4
Summary:

ARW will be glad to see Mr Ridley; mentions CR's trip to S W Ireland; Mr Mitten was at Brandon Mountain a few years ago and found most of the rare mosses, but flowering plants were very scarce. Thanks CR for the I. Naturalist, CR's notes on the Megaceros is interesting, also American sponges.

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WCP1466

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
31 August 1895
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/266
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 5
Summary:

ARW thanks CR for the map of Bournemouth and for the ?spiranthus which he has planted in the dampest part of his Alpine bed. ARW is sorry not to have the excursion; his daughter and the friend are returning to Liverpool and his wife has a badly inflamed eye. Regarding Poole Harbour, the Poole Corporation and Harbour Board fear the sand banks will be washed away and the harbour ruined and are spending thousands of pounds on sea walls; mentions sand banks and hopes CR might be able to give an opinion on the subject.

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WCP1467

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
21 January 1896
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/267
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 6
Summary:

As CR is attending meetings of the Geological Society, ARW wants to know about gases in glacier water - have they been ascertained and can CR give an authority on the subject. Has been busy with orchids; writing his article on the Aar gorge; has an invitation to lecture in Davos Platz from Dr Lund; makes an enquiry as to whether workers in the Orchid House at Kew exchange duplicates with amateurs.

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WCP1468

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
26 August 1897
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/268
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 26
Summary:

ARW sends apologies on not congratulating Clement Reid on his marriage, but congratulates him now. Returns Ridley's letter, also Flower's. Mentions the "white snake". Ridley has sent some more orchids.

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WCP1469

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
26 March 1898
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/269
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 31
Summary:

ARW returns a draft report on the caves with one suggestion; attempts to explain the absence of cave fauna. ARW suggests submitting the draft with those remarks to Sir W Flower and to let him decide on the nature of the report.

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WCP1470

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
20 October 1898
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/270
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 34
Summary:

ARW will be glad to try the Acer seeds; Mr Mitten would try them for Clement Reid. Mentions Loudon's 'Tree and Shrubs Encyclopaedia'. Enquires if Clement Reid has asked Mr Rogers of Southampton about them (the Acer seeds?).

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WCP1471

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
14 November 1898
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/271
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 40
Summary:

A discussion of Pinus maritima. As to Acer Monspessalanum, Hemsley says it is quite hardy in Britain.

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WCP1472

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
22 September 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/272
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 51
Summary:

ARW mentions a reviewer in Science noticing ARW's paper on "The Gorge of the Aar". Many Swiss geologists have proved that some Alpine lakes are due to subsidence or deformation, ?see Aeppli's essay on Lake Zurich. ARW asks for references to these proofs.

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WCP1473

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
12 June 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/273
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 45
Summary:

ARW has finished reading ?C. R.'s book and makes some remarks. Regarding getting European seeds for comparison, he enquires if CR has asked Mr Thomas Hanbury of La Mortola garden.

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WCP1474

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
25 November 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 72
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/274
Summary:

ARW thanks CR for the offer of loan of periodicals with articles on erosion. James Geikie has sent a brief reply to Aeppli. Percy Kendall has promised photographs illustrating glacial phenomena.

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WCP1475

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
7 December 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/275
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 73
Summary:

ARW returns the papers C. R. lent him. The paper on Spitzbergen was very instructive, to do with the rapid motion of glaciers and occurrence of ?re-eddies which Bonney denies. The paper on Skye is more puzzling. PS Owing to terrible drought, April-August, none of the Acer seeds came up, nor seeds of Cornus nuttallii.

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WCP1476

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
3 July 1902
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/276
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 109
Summary:

ARW thanks C. R. for abstracts on "hanging valleys". ARW mentions his theory of seed migration through the air and is looking for evidence. Enquires if C. R. has geological survey work in Cornwall, or has he retired. ARW is building a house at Broadstone "on a very pretty bit of land".

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WCP1477

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
24 August 1911
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/277
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 216
  • Anon. (1912). [Letter to Clement Reid]. Report of the Eightieth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 577-578
Summary:

ARW has read CR's paper on British plants and the glacial period and discusses that subject, asking CR to read ARW's description of Flora of the Azores in Island Life again, and noting the argument about species which have been so derived since the glacial period. Temperature is mentioned as one of many factors; ARW notes that many species could have lived since the Pliocene. ARW suffers from eczema and rheumatism and cannot leave home.

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WCP2440

From:
Clement Reid
To:
William Mitten
Date:
15 January 1891
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 245-246
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2519

From:
Clement Reid
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 June 1913
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 266
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP5272

From:
Clement Reid
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
14 June 1914
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/266
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/266
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP5273

From:
Clement Reid
To:
[William Greenell] [Wallace] [ARW's son]
Date:
20 June 1914
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/266
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP6225

From:
Clement Reid
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
9 December 1911
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP16/1/132
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP16/1/132
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP6350

From:
Clement Reid
To:
William Mitten
Date:
8 September 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP15/1/4
Summary:

Rhizomes of mosses; news from Ridley who has seen a white snake in Selangor caves; Mitten's new Crepis species; Hieracia; will send Hoxne Report from British Association meeting; enclosing two (of his) Dorset papers, one relating to Blashenwell, the other not botanical.

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