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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
May 1855
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/139
  • Wallace, A. R. (1855). Borneo. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art: 2023: 683-684
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 53-56]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 178]
Summary:

Describing the locality and people; thoughts on differences between "civilised" and "savage".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel13672

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0052; Reel 1087
Summary:

Final pay approved for JH. Thomas Graham has not yet received full authority [as JH's successor]. Production of Crimean Medal. No success in finding Benjamin Wyon's model of Kaffir Medal in War Department. Encloses reply from Philadelphia Mint regarding new weighing machine. Shipment of copper to Sydney branch mint. Cost of producing Kaffir ribbon. Wyon's dies are breaking.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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