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- Exchanging insect lists with Bates and keeping a journal
- Wallace's advice to Bates on writing a book
- Wallace on animal distribution and admiration of Darwin
- Wallace on wild flowers in Java and England
- Wallace on biogeography
- Portrait of Wallace
- Comments on the distribution of birds in Celebes
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- Proof illustration of the animals of New Guinea
- Proof illustration of the birds of the Malay forest
- Proof illustration of the animals of Borneo
- Proof illustration of the birds of the Upper Amazon
- Proof illustration of the animals of a Canadian forest
- Proof illustration of the animals of Madagascar
- Darwin's notes on Wallace's Island Life book
- Wallace explains flower anatomy
- Wallace's Lowell Institute lecture on continental islands
- Report on Darwinism lectures
- Response to Wallace's lecture on colours of animals
- List of Wallace's lectures in the USA
- Information on astronomy and the death of Bates
- Notes on glacial lakes
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- Attending the Cambridge University Natural Science Club
- Naming a spider Friula wallacii
- Wallace in his garden
- Photographic proof print of a redwood tree
- Annotated proof print of an orang-utan
- Annotated proof print of a gibbon
- Annotated proof print of a lemur
- Wallace donates his Amazonian fish drawings to the British Museum
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Proof illustration of the animals of New Guinea
Catalogue number: WP6/3/1/2
Proof illustration entitled Characteristic Animals of New Guinea for Wallace's book The Geographical Distribution of Animals, dated 1876.
This proof illustration of the Characteristic Animals of New Guinea was for Wallace's two-volume book published in 1876, called The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas and Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface.
The illustration, originally drawn by J.B. Zwecker, is on a cardboard mount, labelled by Wallace with the common names of the animals shown. These include a crowned pigeon, tree kangaroo, Papuan parraquet, racquet-tailed kingfisher and a twelve wired paradise bird. In the published book, the title was changed to Scene in New Guinea with Characteristic Animals, appearing as Plate XVI in volume 1.
In the preface to the book Wallace says he included the 20 plates, 'each one illustrating at once the physical aspect and the special zoological character of some well-marked divisions of a region', so that readers without a zoological background would be able to enjoy it.
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