The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

We would like to thank the following for their invaluable contributions to this project:

The Wallace family - especially Dick and John Wallace for help in a diverse range of ways.

Sir David Attenborough for agreeing to be the project's Patron.

Andreia Salvador - for translating a letter in Portuguese.
Andy Polaszek (NHM, UK) - for assisting the project in various ways.
Anna Mayer (Germany) - for helping to set up the project and listing the letters in the British Library.
Annette Lord (UK) - for scanning and transcribing all letters held at the Oxford Museum of Natural History as well as many others.
Anthony Theobold - for technical advice about digitisation and online letters projects.
Ben Arthur (UK) - for all his hard work editing documents and images in 2012.
Charles Smith (USA) - for help in many different ways and for allowing us to use his transcripts of published letters.
Christine Garwood (UK) - for providing useful information.
Claudia Cardilo - for her assistance with Italian.
Darren Mann (UK) - for arranging for the letters in the Hope Dept., Oxford, to be scanned for our project.
Dave Kilby - for technical advice about digitisation and online letters projects.
Darwin Correspondence Project (UK) - particularly Dr Alison Pearn, Rosy Clarkson and Samantha Evans, for their generously allowing us to use transcripts of letters written by Darwin as well as assistance with copyright queries.
Graeme Cannon - for technical input in digitisation projects and online letters projects.
Ildeu Moreira (Brazil).
James Moore (UK) - for advice on the extent and distribution of Wallace correspondence. By sharing results from his research over many years, he saved the project much time and effort.
John van Wyhe (Singapore) - for providing useful information.
Lisa Smith.
Malcolm Scoble (NHM, UK) - was key to gaining initial approval for the project in the NHM.
Mike Sadka (NHM, UK) - for extremely useful help and advice on designing the project's MS Access database.
Nancy Chillingworth (NHM, UK) - for advice on IPR issues.
Rachel Clark (UK) - for all her help editing images for the project.
Renzo Nelli - for assistance with Italian copyright laws.
Simon Rycroft (NHM, UK) - for technical help with this website and advice on file naming conventions.
Steve Cafferty (NHM, UK) - for allowing us to use the HerbScan machines he purchased for the NHM's part of the Mellon-funded Plant Initiatives project (see http://plants.jstor.org). These were used to scan nearly all of the NHM's Wallace correspondence.
Tim Padfield (UK) - for valuable assistance with UK copyright law queries.
Tyndall Correspondence Project - in particular James Elwick, for sharing their transcription protocol with us. 

We would like to thank the following repositories and individuals for supplying images of letters and other documents:

Abo Academy, Finland
American Museum of Natural History, New York
American Philosophical Society
Andrew Berry
Angus Carroll
Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University
Australian Museum
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives Service
Biblioteca di Scienze, Italy
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies at Rhodes House
Boston Public Library
Brighton & Hove Libraries
British Geological Society
British Museum
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham
California Academy of Sciences
Cambridge University Library
Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge
Croydon Local Studies Library and Archive Service
Dirk Backenköehler
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Edinburgh University Library
English Heritage
Folger Shakespeare Library
Gail Guthrie
George Beccaloni
Ghent University, Belgium
Glamorgan Archives
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
Harvard University - Gray Herbarium
Harvard University - Houghton Library
Harvard University - Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University - Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University - The Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas
Imperial College London
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam)
Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries
John Hay Library, Brown University
John Hopkins University, Baltimore
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester
John Greenell Wilson
Knox College Library, Galesburg, Illinois
Lambeth Archives
Le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Leiden University Library
Lilly Library, Indiana University
Linnean Society of London
Liverpool University Library
London School of Economics Archives
Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery
Mark Samuels
Missouri Botanic Garden
Moser Library, Shrewsbury School
National Library of Australia
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Wales
National Museums Scotland
Natural History Museum, London
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Princeton University
Professor James Williams
Professor Philip Howse
Quentin Keynes Collection
Richard Milner
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal College of Physicians
Royal Entomological Society
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Senate House Library, University of London
Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut
Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive
Sheffield Archives
SOAS Library, Archives and Special Collections
St. Andrew's University Special Collections
State Library of South Australia
Strathclyde University Archives
Stephanie Thurston
Surrey History Centre
The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
The British Library
The College of Psychic Studies
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
The London Library
The New York Botanical Garden
The New York Public Library
The Royal Society
Tomas Feininger
UCLA
Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek Duesseldorf
University College Dublin
University College London Special Collections
University Museum of Zoology Cambridge
University of Amsterdam Special Collections
University of Bristol, Special Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries
University of Dundee
University of Exeter, Special Collections
University of Pennsylvania
University of Reading, Special Collections
University of Virginia, Special Collections
Wagner College, New York
Wellcome Trust
West Sussex Record Office
Women's Library
Yale University - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University - Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Yale University Library - Manuscripts and Archives
Zoological Society London

We would like to thank the following volunteers for transcribing letters and other documents:

Adams, Christina (UK)
*Ahmed, Rayhnuma (Harvard University, USA)
Anacootee, Emma (UK)
Arias, Lily (PERU/Indiana State University (US)
*Ather, Rabiya (Harvard University, USA)
*Barton, Michael (USA)
Bevan, Deniz (Canada)
*Botelho, Alyssa (Harvard University, USA)
Bourne, Fiona (UK)
*Bradbury, Alexandra (Harvard University, USA)
*Brunnen, Claire (UK)
*Campbell, John (Harvard University, USA)
*Chen, Eric (Harvard University, USA)
*Chudasama Mahmud, Aisha (UK)
*Clerx, William (Harvard University, USA)
Cooper, Rod (UK)
Cooper, Rosie (UK)
Fidele, Genevieve
*Griffin, Mary (Harvard University, USA)
*Griffin, Molly (Harvard University, USA)
*Hauserman, Samantha (USA)
*Hill, Jenny (UK)
*Jackson, John (UK)
Jenkins, Helen (UK)
*Kirwan, Luke (Ireland)
Knott, Peter (UK)
*Kowal, Emma (Harvard University, USA)
*Lang, Ben (UK)
*Lau, Jessica (UK)
Lester, Ahren (UK)
*Martinho, Antone (Harvard University, USA)
*McComb, Angela (USA)
McCombie, Arleen (UK)
Merry, Sarah (UK)
Monshin, Deborah (UK)
Moody, Liz (UK)
*Murphy, Will (Harvard University, USA)
*Nitz, Jason (Australia)
*O'Hanlon, Alice (UK)
Parfitt, Elisabeth (UK)
*Riding, Fay (UK)
Royce, Isobel (UK)
Saint-Smith, Lucy (UK)
*Salvador, Andreia (UK)
Shapland, Lesley (UK)
Sloyan, Victoria (UK)
*Sundquist, Luke (Harvard University, USA)
Szentgyorgyi, Katherine (UK)
*Truong, Michael (Harvard University, USA)
Ulguim, Priscilla Ferreira (UK)
*Vanostran, Collin (Harvard University, USA)
*Vongsachang, Hurnan (Harvard University, USA)
*Watkins, Sophia (Harvard University, USA)
*Wong, Jenny (Harvard University, USA)


*No longer working for the project.