The Alfred Russel Wallace Website

A. AUDIO FILES 

TALKS GIVEN AT A CONFERENCE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF WALLACE AT THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON ON 22 NOVEMBER 2008 (see http://wallacefund.info/smn-conference-alfred-russel-wallace-podcasts-and-photos)

These talks were recorded for the Scientific and Medical Network by Martin Redfern (senior producer in the BBC Radio Science Unit) and Martin and the SMN have kindly allowed the Wallace Fund to put copies of the sound files on this website. The talks are mp3 files of around 20MB each and you can download them by right clicking a link below and saving the file to your hard drive. They can then be played using any audio player (e.g. RealPlayer - http://uk.real.com/player/win/).

1) Aubrey Manning: Introduction, followed by Peter Raby: Alfred Russel Wallace: The Evolution of an Unforgotten Naturalist [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

2) George Beccaloni: Wallace, Darwin and the Discovery of Natural Selection [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

3) Roy Davies: Wallace, Darwin and the Discovery of Natural Selection - a New Interpretation of the Events [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

4) Charles Smith: Wallace and Final Causes: Spiritualism, Evolution, and Beyond [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

5) David Collard: Alfred Russel Wallace as a Social Reformer [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

6) DISCUSSION [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

OTHER RECOMMENDED TALKS ABOUT WALLACE

David Quammen: The man who wasn't Darwin (Montana State University's Wallace Stegner Lecture given on November 5, 2008). [CLICK HERE]

David Quammen: The man who wasn't Darwin (Interview by Kathleen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio, December 15, 2008). [CLICK HERE]

George Beccaloni & Jo Cooper: Darwin, Wallace and the discovery of natural selection (A presentation given for "Nature Live" at The Natural History Museum, London, on July 1st 2008 - the 150th anniversary of announcement of Darwin and Wallace's discovery). [CLICK HERE]

Andrew Berry (Harvard University): Happy Birthday Darwin and Hello Alfred Wallace (New Hampshire Public Radio, August 29, 2009) [CLICK HERE]