Revision of Wallace's Notebooks etc from Wed, 2022-07-27 00:01

The Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) has not only catalogued Wallace's letters (available online in EPSILON), but also all of his other manuscripts, artwork etc, plus important documents written by family members. There are a total of 476 of these 'non-letter' manuscripts, and they include a number of Wallace's historically important notebooks, images of which are available online via the links below.

THE AMAZON (1848 - 1852)

WCP5802: Drawings of palm trees. These are inserted into the manuscript of ARW's 1853 book, Palm Trees of the Amazon and Their Uses. Repository: Linnean Society. CLICK HERE

"Fishes of the Amazon & Rio Negro": Descriptions of fishes of the Amazon and the Rio Negro, bound in 4 volumes. Repository: The Natural History Museum, London:

WCP5652: CLICK HERE, WCP6285: CLICK HERE, WCP6284: CLICK HERE, WCP6286: CLICK HERE

WCP6295: Drawings of fish from the Rio Negro, bound in 4 volumes. Repository: The Natural History Museum, London. CLICK HERE

THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO (1854 - 1862)

Field notebook with lists of birds and beetles collected in Singapore & Malacca in 1854. Repository: Linnean Society. CLICK HERE

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith