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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
27 December 1897
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1897-1913
Source of text:
  • Royal Entomological Society: RES 32/24
  • Royal Entomological Society: RES 32/24
Summary:

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Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
18 July 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

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Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
12 August 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
12 November 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
28 September 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/12
Summary:

Visits from Mr Murray the spiritualist and Mrs Sconce, news that General Minchin, a chess player, to live nearby; visit to Poole library; gardening supplies; sent off to Mr Casson for Mrs D'Orsay; repairs to kitchen; delivery of Cooperative coal; new [visiting] cards; receipt of a letter from Rudyard Kipling expressing hope he can visit one day; Mr Linton's thanks to ARW and Mitten for [specimen of] grass.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Coxe
Date:
March? [1897]
Source of text:
  • Jeremy Norman and Co. (bookseller)
  • Jeremy Norman and Co. (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
16 January 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 60
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 60
Summary:

ARW will sign the form proposing C. Lloyd Morgan as a member of the Royal Society.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
14 February 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 61
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 61
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 71-72]
Summary:

About Poulton's British Association address. Geological Ideas.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
13 June 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 62
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 73]
Summary:

About Pritchard's book. Geology.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
5 January 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 189
Summary:

Comments on Meldola's address on variation, with specific points.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 January 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 190
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 70-71]
Summary:

Discusses Darwin's and Weismann's views of heredity of acquired characteristics.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
10 October 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 191
Summary:

Thanks for seeds. Talk about his son, who has been working on an electric railway near Boston.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 November 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 192
Summary:

About butterfly exhibition and Will's travels in America.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 December 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 193
Summary:

Questions about Professor Lippman's method of colour photography for his book on the century. More about his son, Will, who is working in Denver.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
30 December 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 194
Summary:

Thanks for Meldola's explanation of Lippman's theory of colour photography, and discussion of this.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie ("Grant") Allen
Date:
21 April 1897
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:

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Contributor:
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From:
Charles Payson Gurley Scott
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 March 1897
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: 030.8=992 SCO. Pasted into Scott's book "The Malayan Words"
Summary:

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Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Job Collins
Date:
12 May 1897
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

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Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Stephens Salt
Date:
26 September 1897
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

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Contributor:
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