| Ref No | WP/1/5/10 |
| Alt Ref No | WP1/5/10 |
| Title | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William |
| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William. from Baltimore, Maryland, Dec (1886) re visit to Prof Morse at Salem, Morse's Japanese artefacts and books, his 15 year old son's weekly natural history club meetings and collections of flints, shells and insects; visit to Prof Marsh at Newhaven Connecticut, his fossil collection including great animal skulls and skeletons; explosion of rotten ostrich egg in Marsh's museum (Peabody Museum, Yale); Alfred Russel Wallace's lecture to ladies' college at Poughkeepsie; route of travel to Baltimore via New York.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899
Place: Japan USA |
| Date | Dec 1886 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM General Library |
| Extent | Letter |
| Level | Item |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PX473 | Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Biologist | 1823-1913 |
| PX5760 | Morse; Edward Sylvester (1838-1925) | 1838-1925 |
| PX5759 | Marsh; Othniel Charles (1831-1899) | 1831-1899 |
| PX5162 | Wallace; William Greenell (1871-1951); Electrical engineer | 1871-1951 |
| PX10607 | Yale Peabody Museum; 1876-present | 1876-present |