| Ref No | WP/6/9/1 |
| Alt Ref No | WP6/9/1 |
| Title | Papers re Is Mars Habitable? |
| Description | 1. Proofs of 'Is Mars Habitable' stamped 23 Oct 190[7], front matter, preface and pp [1]-109, with corrections in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand including inserted loose notes
2. Letter to Alfred Russel Wallace from J H Poynting, from Ampton Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham 19 Oct 1907 re the last chapters, radiation and Martian canals
3. Stamped envelope addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace from 'The Auk', Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, date illegible, annotated on the back in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ' Is Mars Habitable? | Author's corrected Proofs | (Prof Poynting's letter)'.
Name: Poynting, J H, born c.1853
Notes: All found when listed in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with apparently unrelated miscellanea including lists compiled by William Greenell Wallace of Alfred Russel Wallace's library.
Subject: Mars |
| Date | 19 Oct-1 Nov 1907 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM General Library |
| Extent | File |
| Level | Item |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PX5670 | Poynting; John Henry (1852-1914); Professor | 1852-1914 |