The Alfred Russel Wallace Website

A R Wallace – The Forgotten Evolutionist
An exhibition by Fred Langford Edwards.
5th November 2009 – 8th February 2010.
University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University, UK
For more information see http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/museum/events/

At the first public reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers on natural selection on 1 July 1858 the two men were given equal status and recognition. However, whilst Darwin is celebrated, Wallace has faded from the popular history of scientific thought.

This exhibition is part of a Wellcome Trust funded project to research and promote the contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace to the theory of evolution by natural selection. Working with Dr George Beccaloni of the Natural History Museum, Fred Langford Edwards has explored many university and public collections of natural history, and made two extended research visits to the Amazon Basin and the Malay Archipelago. The resulting work explores the life, ideas, and surviving collections of Wallace, and the physical hardships he endured during his travels.