WCP6189

Enclosure (WCP6189.7923)

[1]¹

[2]²

Infant aged 40 hours hanging by its hands, supporting the whole weight of its body.

N[ota]. B[ene]. This infant could hang by one hand. The photograph was however a failure.

LR³

The first page is a photograph of a baby hanging from a branch by both hands.

Annotation on the reverse side of the photograph, written in ink in the hand of the author, and initialled.

Initials are those of Dr Louis Robinson, who wrote articles on this subject e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2273893/?page=1

Status: Draft transcription [Enclosure (WCP6189.7923)]

For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2020-04-21]

Please cite as “WCP6189,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6189

No summary available.

Record number: WCP6189
Item number: 7923
From: Louis Robinson
To: [Alfred Russel] [Wallace]
Date: 1890s
Sent from: [none given]
Sent to: [none given]
Source of text: Linnean Society of London: 572-1-4-Darwin
Physical description: Enclosure, 1 p. of contemporary text
Item description: Photograph of 40 hour old baby hanging from a branch by it's hands annotated on the back by Louis Robinson.
General notes: Probably an enclosure to an unknown letter. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2273893/?page=1