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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
- Science in 1907 newspaper article
- Reply from Tring Zoological Museum about bird species
- Wallace and the Croydon Natural History Society
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Flowers at The Dell
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1873 Calendar of flowering plants at the Dell. April. By end of
March Crocuses, Winter Aconite and Snowdrops had done
flow[erin]g
1 Primroses.. full flower
Wallflower, Draba azoides (end of March)
Daffodil, Sax. oppositifolia (end of March)
Arabis albida
3 Aubrietia, Viola lutea
Doronicum cauceasicum. Narcissus jonguilla
Scilla siberica, Myosotis dissitiflora.
Ornithogalum mutans. Vinea major
Hyacinth (garden) Anemone (garden)
Mahonia aquifolum, Viburnam tinius[?].
Sun. 6 Balsam Poplar, White-thorn, Lilac, leaves just op[enin]g..
A week's very cold north & N.E. wind!!
very cutting, no advance of vegetation..
13th Still cold
15th. Shower evening, first for more than 2 weeks.
milder.
Nightingale heard.
Rubes sanguinea - fully out.
Ap. 20th. North to E. winds all the week & still blowing.
a few showers, but always cold.
Elm, Lilac, Spiraeas in leaf
Sycamore & Birch just opening.
26th. Cuckoo heard.
Ap. 27th. N.E. wind still - very cold - 3 night
past last very sharp; very little advance
in vegetation.
Ap. 30th. Wind changed to W. a little milder but
still cold,- 4 weeks of continuous N.
and N.E. winds, generally cold and often
very violent!!!
Blue-bells in flower.
Meleagris
Fritelia.
May 4th. Two or three mild days but, hail & cold
wind yesterday & today.
Berberis darwinii
Cowslip - Orchis mascula.
a few warm days.
May 18th. Cold all the week, & the last 4 days a
severe East wind dry & cutting..
Siberium Xab.[?]
Parrot tulips - Helianthenium croceum
Genum chilense, Genum sylvaticum, Aquilegius
Robinica pseudaeacia, leaves opening.
[WP3/3]
1 Primroses.. full flower
Wallflower, Draba azoides (end of March)
Daffodil, Sax. oppositifolia (end of March)
Arabis albida
3 Aubrietia, Viola lutea
Doronicum cauceasicum. Narcissus jonguilla
Scilla siberica, Myosotis dissitiflora.
Ornithogalum mutans. Vinea major
Hyacinth (garden) Anemone (garden)
Mahonia aquifolum, Viburnam tinius[?].
Sun. 6 Balsam Poplar, White-thorn, Lilac, leaves just op[enin]g..
A week's very cold north & N.E. wind!!
very cutting, no advance of vegetation..
13th Still cold
15th. Shower evening, first for more than 2 weeks.
milder.
Nightingale heard.
Rubes sanguinea - fully out.
Ap. 20th. North to E. winds all the week & still blowing.
a few showers, but always cold.
Elm, Lilac, Spiraeas in leaf
Sycamore & Birch just opening.
26th. Cuckoo heard.
Ap. 27th. N.E. wind still - very cold - 3 night
past last very sharp; very little advance
in vegetation.
Ap. 30th. Wind changed to W. a little milder but
still cold,- 4 weeks of continuous N.
and N.E. winds, generally cold and often
very violent!!!
Blue-bells in flower.
Meleagris
Fritelia.
May 4th. Two or three mild days but, hail & cold
wind yesterday & today.
Berberis darwinii
Cowslip - Orchis mascula.
a few warm days.
May 18th. Cold all the week, & the last 4 days a
severe East wind dry & cutting..
Siberium Xab.[?]
Parrot tulips - Helianthenium croceum
Genum chilense, Genum sylvaticum, Aquilegius
Robinica pseudaeacia, leaves opening.
[WP3/3]
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