Am 7. November 1913 starb A. R. Wallace

„Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of many talents – an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. ……“

continue at the Natural History Museum – London

A  talk by George Beccaloni and Caroline Catchpole given in January 2013 at the Natural History Museum, London, to celebrate the launch of Wallace100 and Wallace Letters Online on Vimeo. Link to Wallace Letters Online.

„In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had worked out a theory of natural selection. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace’s paper were presented jointly in London.“

Article published online: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society – Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) Virtual Issue

A year later Darwin published „On the Origin of Species“

Awards received by Alfred Russel Wallace
Royal Medal (1868)
Darwin Medal (1890)
Founder’s Medal (1892)
Linnean Society Gold Medal (1892)
Copley Medal (1908)
Order of Merit (1908)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (1908)

„On Thursday 7th November 2013, one hundred years to the day after the great naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace died, a life-size bronze statue of him will be presented to the Natural History Museum in London by the Wallace Memorial Fund.“

Biographies for example:

Peter Raby
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life

Charles H. Smith and George Beccaloni
Natural Selection and Beyond -The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace

Matthias Glaubrecht
Am Ende des Archipels – Alfred Russel Wallace

Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist and co-founder of the theory of evolution Alfred Russel Wallace.

 

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