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The 200th anniversary of Wallace's birth is ONLY 4 years away!
Alfred Russel Wallace - A Very Important Ornithologist
By George Beccaloni, March 2018
(First Draft)Wallace collected an impressive total of 212 new bird species (Wallace, 1865) during his collecting expeditions to Amazonia (1848-52) and the "Malay Archipelago" (1854-62). Of these he personally named 105 species1 (Beccaloni, 2017), making him one of the most prolific describers of bird species of all time (Ernst Mayer, for example, 'only' named 26 species during his lifetime).
Keeping My Hand In at London's Natural History Museum (LOL!)
Visit Some of the Magical Places Alfred Russel Wallace Travelled to in Indonesia and Help the Wallace Correspondence Project!
The 150th Anniversary of Wallace's Book "The Malay Archipelago" Approaches!
Next year (2019) sees the 150th anniversary of the publication of Wallace's excellent book about his travels in Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor and Singapore - The Malay Archipelago.
Wallace Correspondence Project Sub-editor/Researcher Post is Advertised
*Job Announcement*
Sub-editor/Researcher - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £32,127 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
Wallace Correspondence Project Archivist Post is Advertised
*Job Announcement*
Archivist - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £31,327 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
New Book: Where Australia Collides with Asia
Ian Burnet has asked me to post the Prologue of his new book Where Australia Collides with Asia: The epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin of ‘The Origin of Species’ so here it is:
Prologue
Wallace Correspondence Project to Restart December 1st 2017.
Very good news for myself and my A. R. Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP)! The agreement for the grant which will fund the project for 2 years and 9 months was officially signed today and work on the project is due to restart on December 1st! The funder is the John Templeton Foundation and the charity which will host the grant is the Charles Darwin Trust (CDT).