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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 June 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/13
Summary:

Lists 90 insect specimens sent in box of duplicates, including some to be identified and a series of Aphodius from the Brecknockshire Beacons; describes insects and plants collected there; plans for an insect cabinet and thorough study of a few (Coleoptera) families. “Best capture” was the “most beautiful” Trichius fasciatus, the Bee Beetle.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 October 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/14
Summary:

Have been surprisingly unsuccessful at collecting many insects, despite being constantly outdoors in the Welsh countryside this summer doing surveying work. Paucity of insects to collect. List of duplicate specimens ARW could have if he likes; located and bought copy of Shuckard's "Coleoptera," an illustrated treatise on beetles.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
13 October 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/15
Summary:

Exchanges and trades insect specimens with other collectors; very slight difference between Donacia impressa and D. linearis; planning design of a new insect cabinet; Mr Kirby's cabinet; Ray Society publications; butterfly Colias hyale.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
9 November 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/16
Summary:

Acknowledges arrival of beetles from Bates; design and costs of crafted insect cabinets and storage boxes. “Have you read [Chambers’] 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' or is it out of your line?”

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
28 December 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/17
Summary:

Insect cabinets and boxes; opines that "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" is “ingenius [sic] theory” supported by “striking facts” but “remains to be proved” by more facts about “progressive development of species”; Lawrence's “Lectures on Man” interesting on formation of human races; Pritchard's physical history of man; distinction between species and varieties in man; Humboldt's "Cosmos" supports similar theories.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 April 1846
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/11
Summary:

Exchanging monthly lists of insect acquisitions; plans to keep journal recording each natural capture with location, time, and notes; periodical appearance of insects; meteorology; lists Coleoptera taken in March 1846; opinion of the writings of Lyell, Darwin and Humboldt; Kirby and Spencer's entomology; Spry's figures; lack of natural historians and books in Neath.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 May 1846
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/12
Summary:

Coleoptera specimens wanted from Bates's list, specimens he has available for exchange; sending tracing of a map showing Crymlin [Crymlyn] Burrows, geology and plants there; describes Neath and Swansea valleys including a small ink sketch; plans to collect in Swansea area; Dilwyn's catalogue of Swansea Coleoptera; discusses entomological pins and microscopes.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
9 June 1846
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/94
Summary:

Describes new insect cabinet under construction, which contains 28 drawers, stands 3 feet high. Describes recent list of insects, highlighting "latest good captures" among other observations.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
August 1846
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/18
Summary:

Lack of response from Bates to insects and letter sent two months earlier; current scarcity of insects near Neath; arrival of Lepidoptera from friend in Georgia, USA, including sketch of Bombyx [a moth]; death of collected Lepidoptera larvae.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 October 1847
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/19
Summary:

Visits London and Paris; describes Parisian architecture, museums, galleries and boulevards; the layout and operation of the Jardin des Plantes including sketches of mineral cabinets and cases in its museum; studied insects at the British Museum to identify his collection of American Coleoptera; desires to study one family thoroughly with regard to the theory of the origin of species; Ray Society; Oken's Elements of Physiophilosophy and variety, distribution and arrangement of species.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[30 Apr. 1856 & 10 May 1856]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/39
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418359
Summary:

Long wait for and final arrival of a ship to Macassar; arrival of Bates' letters from Ega (now Teffé) Brazil, and copy of Zoologist; geographical distribution of insect species in the islands of the Malay archipelago; relative scarcity of Lepidoptera; comparative numbers and types of insect species in Malay archipelago and Brazil; details of insects collected, including new butterfly Ornithoptera Brookeana (Wallace), Rhyncophorae, Carabidae, Anthribidae, Bupestridae, Cleridae, Longicornes and many others, total number of insect species collected estimated at 6,000, specimens over 30,000; desire to collect all world Longicornes for study; importance of recording location of capture of specimens; separation of collections from different localities; desire for future comparison of data and exchange of specimens with Bates; Orang Utans; comparison of types of forest plants, people and customs in Amazon and Malay archipelago; scarcity of edible fruit in the East; delicious Durian; Madame Pfeiffer's insect collection; regards to Spruce.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[4 Jan. 1858 & 25 Jan. 1858]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/41
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/72
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418384
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 65-68]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 184-185]
Summary:

Receipt of mail from home including letters from Bates and Darwin; cleaning and packing of collections from Aru; detailed account of numbers, types and locations of insects collected, including first serious collection of very small beetle species (Staphylinidae etc) at Macassar; comparison of data sent by Bates with his own; reaction to ARW's paper "On the succession of species", approving letter from Darwin; benefit of Darwin's proposed publication on species and varieties; boundary between two distinct faunas in Malay Archipelago; proposed expeditions to Gilolo island [Halmahera] and New Guinea; advantages of Amboyna as a base; battles of Balaclava and Inkerman; Britain - India meeting [British rule in India]; insects in the Andes.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
25 November 1859
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/47
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 72]
Summary:

Bates' safe arrival (in England); hopes Bates will write a Fauna of the Amazon Valley; ARW's own plans for a similar work on the Malay Archipelago; hopes for exchange of duplicate specimens; paper on principles of Geographical distribution in the archipelago sent to the Linnean Society.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
24 December 1860
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/49
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 72-73]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 197-199]
Summary:

ARW's admiration of Darwin's Origin of species; birds and mammals better indicators of zoological geography than insects; exchange of specimens with Bates; plans to return to England in about 18 months; imminent voyage to Timor.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 December [1861]
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
10 December 1861
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/52
  • Clodd, E. (Ed). (1892). In: The Naturalist on the River Amazon. London: John Murray. [pp. xxxiv-xxxv]
Summary:

Bates' paper on Papilios; Darwinian philosophy, geographical distribution of species, rivers as limits to distribution, ARW's Zoological Society paper on distribution of monkey species in Brazil; isolation of species from geographical origins, geological evidence; hopes Bates will write on Cicindelidae; collecting in Sumatra; plans to return to England.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[1863?]
Source of text:
  • Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Edward Clodd Collection
  • Clodd, E. (1916). In: Memories. London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 64-65]
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
13 April 1863
Source of text:
Kingsley, F. E. G. (Ed.). (1877). In: Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Edited by His Wife . Vol. 2. London: Henry S. King & Co. [pp. 173-174]
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 May 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395482
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
23 September 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395472
Summary:

No summary available.

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