Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), naturalist, traveller in the East Indies

Date:
1863-1910
Reference:
MS.7830/54-59
Part of:
Miscellany: Australasia, Indonesia and the Pacific, 18th-20th centuries
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Description

6 autograph letters, signed; comprising one on naming birds from the Malay archipelago (no. 54); one relating to a lecture tour to America and Australia (no. 55); one concerning his health and the effects upon it of the Sarawak climate (no. 56); and three to the zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater F.R.S. (1829-1913) (nos. 57-59) of which no. 59 refers to expeditions to New Guinea.

Publication/Creation

1863-1910

Physical description

6 items

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: For further material by Alfred Russel Wallace see MS. 7798.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

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