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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
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- Portrait of Wallace
- Comments on the distribution of birds in Celebes
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- Proof illustration of the animals of New Guinea
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- 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
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- Wallace donates his Amazonian fish drawings to the British Museum
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Wallace donates his Amazonian fish drawings to the British Museum
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Broadstone, Wimborne
Novr. 9th. 1904
G.A.Boulenger Esq.
Dear Sir
I have had by me for 50 years about 200 drawings of fishes which I made on the Rio Negro & its Tributaries, Specimens of all were collected but were lost on the voyage home. The drawings are all made to scale, and are accurate as to fin rays, scaling, dorsal line &c. and I have brief descriptions & notes of locality habits uses &c. of most of them. Would you care to look over them and name such as you know and giving the Genus, or the Family of the rest.
Also I should be glad to know if they are worth making a Catalogue of, if merely to show the possible richness of the fish-fauna of a river in which so many could be found without special collecting & by a non-specialist. They could now be easily reproduced by photography & process-plate, and might perhaps form an interesting little volume.
Do you know any student of fishes to whom they would be useful
for this purpose? they are all in pencil, &were often
done under difficulties in canoes &c. Dr. Gunther looked at
them some 30 years ago and put a few names, but said they were
meaningless without specimens. Still I don't like to throw them
away & should like another opinion.
Believe me
Yours very truly
[signed] Alfred Russel
Wallace
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