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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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Response to Wallace's lecture on colours of animals
Catalogue number: WP1/5/22(1)
Press cutting reporting on a Cincinnati lecture on animal colours undated, but probably April 1887.
This cutting (from an unnamed newspaper) reports on Wallace's lecture for the Cincinnati Natural History Society, USA, on Colours and Their Uses in Animals. It gives us a good idea of both Wallace's fame and his lecturing style. 'Dr. Wallace is regarded as one of the most eminent of English naturalists and is famous for his achievements in science and his valuable contributions to the literature of natural history'.
Wallace was uncomfortable in the public eye, yet it seems he was a charming guest lecturer. 'Dr. Wallace is a large, fine-looking elderly gentleman, with a long beard that gives him something of a patriarchal look, but his manner on the rostrum is so unostentatious that his lecture almost carried with it the effect of pleasant and instructive conversation among a party of friends.'
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