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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
- Flowers at The Dell
- 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
- List of payments for lectures
- 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
- Science in 1907 manuscript
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- Wallace and the Croydon Natural History Society
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List of Wallace's lectures in the USA
Catalogue number: WP9/1/1
Manuscript list by Wallace detailing his lectures on Natural History and how they were illustrated, undated, probably 1887.
This list was written by Wallace on the back of a piece of headed notepaper from The Hamilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Wallace stayed at this hotel in 1887 while on a lecture tour of North America.
There are eight lectures on the list covering Wallace's areas of interest and expertise. The first is 'The Darwinian Theory-Darwinism, what it is and how it has been demonstrated'. Wallace noted that this lecture was 'illustrated by diagrams'. Other lectures in the list are based on the uses of colour in animals, mimicry, and island biology. A number of these lecture titles can be seen in the press cuttings of reviews of Wallace's lectures; for example, reports on a lecture about colours and their uses in animals.
Although sometimes considered as a shy individual, Wallace was passionate about nature and his research. He strived to make his work accessible to as many people as possible through books and lectures. This is demonstrated by the variety of illustration material he lists for each lecture - maps, diagrams and stereopticon pictures (similar to today's slide projector).
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