Alfred Russel Wallace Collection

Ornithoptera croesus, Wallaces golden birdwing butterfly

Ejecting an intruder
Plate opposite page 297 from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1874

Scene in New Zealand, with some of its remarkable birds
Plate 13 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)

Megachile pluto, Wallaces giant bee

Beetle specimens from the Wallace collection
Specimens collected by Alfred Russel Wallace now held in the Natural History Museum London

Frederick F. Geach and Alfred Russel Wallace (right)
Photographed in 1862 this photograph shows Wallace with Frederick Geach, a mining engineer, who Wallace met in Timor in 1861. Geach became one of Wallaces closest friends

Ornithoptera croesus, Wallaces golden birdwing butterfly
Specimen drawer of golden birdwing butterflys, collected by Alfred Russel Wallace

Entomological Specimens from the Wallace Collection
Display showing differences in colouring between male and female butterflies of the same species. Wallace believed that males fight to compete for females but that female choice was not a factor

Barra do Rio Nego (present day Manaus) from the fort, 1851. Drawing by Alfred Russell Wallace

Letter from A. R. Wallace to his mother, 28 May 1854
Page 2 of a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his mother about sending beetles to his agent Mr Stevens, future travel plans and his daily routine as a collector, dated May 1854

Letter from A. R. Wallace to his mother, 30 April 1854
Page 3 of a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his mother describing the people and wildlife of Singapore, staying with a missionary and the progress of his assistant Charles, dated April 1854

Portrait of a Gentleman study
Opening page of The Malay Archipelago, The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of travel with studies of Man and Nature. By Alfred Russel Wallace, 1874

Notes and sketches by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913)
These notes and sketches were all Alfred Wallace was able to salvage when his return vessel, Helen, caught fire on his return voyage from South America in 1852

Back page of Wallace - Darwin paper, with Wallaces notes
WP7/9 - Back page of Alfred Russel Wallaces annotated copy of his joint 1858 paper with Darwin. Wallace papers, Natural History Museum, London

Chalceus nigrotaeniatus
From Pencil drawings by Alfred Russel Wallace

My house at Bessir, in Waigiou
Page 532 from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1874

The Malay Archipelago
Title page of The Malay Archipelago, The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of travel with studies of Man and Nature. By Alfred Russel Wallace, 1874

Letter from Darwin to Wallace dated November 23 1880
Photograph from the Wallace collection in the General Library of The Natural History Museum

Ali - Wallaces Malay Boy
Photograph from the Wallace collection in the General Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Natives of Aru shooting Paradisaea apoda, greater bird-of-pa
Plate opposite page 443 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Malay Archipelago (1874)

The birthplace of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photograph from My Life - A record of events and opinions (1908) by Alfred Russel Wallace

Chaetodon sp. butterflyfish

Gymnotus carapo, banded knifefish

Pterygolichthys gibbiceps, sailfin pleco
Plate 53 from Vol 4 of a notebook by Alfred Russel Wallace

Acanthodoras cataphractus, spiny catfish
Plate 23 from Drawings of Fishes of Rio Negro, Vol 1, by Alfred Russel Wallace (1850-1852)

Crenicichla wallacii
Plate 45a from Drawings of Fishes of Rio Negro, Vol 1, by Alfred Russel Wallace (1850-1852)

Ancistrus gibbiceps, Knu

Natural Selection
First edition of The Theory of Natural Selection (1870) by Alfred Russel Wallace open at its title page

Wallaces butterflies
Display box of butterflies collected by Alfred Russel Wallace during his expedition in the Malay Archipelago

The plains of New South Wales, with characteristic animals
Plate 12 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)

Dobbo in the Trading Season
Plate opposite page 472 from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1874

Mammalia (class), mammals
Plate 11 from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earths surface, by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1876

Polyalthea - Strange Forest Tree - Tree Fern
Page 83 from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1874

Map of the Malay Archipelago
A map from The Malay Archipelago (1874) by Alfred Russel Wallace

Portrait
Photograph from the Wallace collection held in the Natural History Museums Archive, reference WP15/3/5. The subject of the portrait is not known

Letter from Frank Roberts to Alfred Russel Wallace, February
Letter from Frank Roberts of the Croydon Natural History Society giving details on Alfred Russel Wallaces connections with the society and his proposal that women should be permitted to join

Entomological Specimens
Specimens collected by Alfred Russel Wallace now held in the Natural History Museum London

Hemidoras stenopeltis, catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the catfish Hemidoras stenopeltis from Cuyucuyu, Upper Rio Negro

Title page of the Darwin - Wallace paper
WP7/9 Title page of Alfred Russel Wallaces annotated copy of his joint 1858 paper with Darwin. Wallace papers, Natural History Museum, London

Map of the River Amazon and the Northern part of South America - from Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853) by Alfred R. Wallace

The notebooks of Wallace

Catfish
Drawing no 114 by Alfred Russel Wallace

Asterophysus batrachus, ogre catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the ogre catfish (Asterophysus batrachus) from Mamyacu, Upper Rio Negro

Letter from Wallace to Gould
Letter to the ornithologist John Gould from Alfred Russell Wallace, written in Sarawak in 1859

Notebook of Alfred Russel Wallace
Notes and illustrations on the insects and birds by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) observed in many different locations around the Malay Archipelago

Forest giant sketched near Para
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace during December 1848

Wallaces birds
Bird specimens (possibly Megalaima) collected by Alfred Russel Wallace

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