| Description | Ms in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand headed 'Distribution of Animals as indicating Geographical Changes', probably mss of or based on 'The Comparative antiquity of Continents, as indicated by the Distribution of Living and Extinct Animals', read RGS meeting June 1877 ( See Shermer, p. 367); 15 numbered folios, each about half a sheet of blue lined foolscap paper; in an annotated envelope labelled in an unknown hand in pencil 'A2', in ink [in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand] (Crossed out in pencil) 'Lecture on Ancient Continents &c' and in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand 'Bristol Halifax spring 1878 Cardiff Bradford autumn 1878 'Distribution of Animals as indicating Continental Changes'; annotated faintly in pencil on back in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand 'The Forest Fund Committee have issued their 7th Report.'
Notes: Also in the envelope when listed was a modern printed label 'Manuscript lecture on Distribution… 15 sheets with dates and places given', presumably a NHM library label used for display at some period before listing; label destroyed October 2003.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Subject: Animal distribution, geographical distribution, Continental Drift, Evolution |