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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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WCP257

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1894
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/56
  • Wallace, W. G. & Wallace, V. (1916). Part IV. Home Life. 103-138. In: Marchant, J. (Ed.). Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 114]
Summary:

Recovery of his eyesight, one still inflamed, lost opportunity to view Mars with his telescope, accumulation of reading, writing and chess playing; discovery of a doctor (Turner) at Poole, who is a fellow orchid enthusiast; request for any spare plants if Violet should visit (orchid house) at Liverpool; purchase of educational books for her; unsuitability of Parkstone house for children, but Eleanor and her child may visit; sending two annotated numbers of the Vaccination Enquirer, impossibility of trusting doctors or officials on the subject.

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WCP6884

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
Date:
[30] [November] [1894]
Source of text:
University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP5428

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
J. T. Carrington
Date:
8 December 1894
Source of text:
Ross, S. (1962). Scientist: the story of the word. Annals of Science: A Quarterly Review of the History of Science and Technology Since the Renaissance : 18 (2): 65-85 [p. 77]
Summary:

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WCP258

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 December 1894
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/57
Summary:

Visit by Mrs Maclachlan and small son Hamish; Miss Macdonald expected; kindergarten books; gardening; completion of article on language; Harris leaving the Fortnightly, opinion of new editor; Violet should visit orchid nursery John Rowan & Co at Garston near Liverpool; Ma (Annie Wallace) going to Hurst for her mother's (Mrs Mitten) golden wedding celebrations; considering asking Clement Reid to Christmas dinner.

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