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Inquiry of how my grandfather had a wallace surname
My grandfather's name is RUSSELL WALLACE. I didnt know any story of his life. But I will try to find out where he came from. I have osme of his pics. He looks different from us. I am a filipino and he looks different. Thanks for this webpage, i had more encouragement to know who my granfather was, where did he come from and who is my ancestors.
Ali, Wallace's faithful servant
Dear George,
this is a wonderful source of information! I am an artist, currently completing a Masters degree at the Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore. As a scientist too, I have chosen to develop the character of "Ali", the faithful servant. I was happy to find some informations on the cryptic boy on your website. Taking full artistic liberty, I have decided to make Ali a full-blown scientist in his own right, with his own laboratory, his own method of research and his own findings, based on Traditional Malay Medicine and Arabic texts among others. This is very much still a work in progress, but I would be grateful for any other information available on Ali.
Oh, and I live in Singapore, just around the corner from "Wallace Way"... I wish they's called it Wallace Lane instead!
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Dear Isabelle,
I am afraid that nothing more is known about Ali than what I already said in my blog post (http://wallacefund.info/musings-wallaces-assistants-charles-allen-and-ali). I would love to know what happened to him and his family and whether his descendents remember any family stories about Wallace!
Good luck with your art project. I wish I was living in a tropical country like Singapore!
Best wishes,
George
Rare book
Hello, I´m looking for a very rare book written by Wallace, but I can´t find it in this awesome website. It´s called "Palingenesy and Evolution" and its mentioned by one of his biographers, if I´m not wrong. Where can I find it? I´d be really grateful if you had any information about it! Thank you very much! Lucas Sampaio
Reply to your question
Dear Lucas,
Wallace never wrote a book or any article with "Palingenesy" in the title - see the very comprehensive bibliography of Wallace's writings on my colleague Charles Smith's website:- http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/home.htm
Perhaps it was written by another author?
Best wishes,
George
A Better Picture
For my Geography Graduate Seminar I decided to look into the origins of Biogeography. It was my good luck to find your web site which puts be beginnings of the Theory of Evolution into a much clearer light. I had never heard of Wallace, that gap in my instruction has now been filled. Thank you for the excellent source of information.
Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace
I would like to congratulate you all on this fascinating website but I was disappointed not to find mention of Henry Walter Bates.
Bates is important because of the early influence he had on Wallace as described in my recent biography of Bates.
Details of these early years together are described in The Butterfly Hunter, published in June 2009 by the University of Buckingham Press.
See The Butterfly Hunter, The life of Henry Walter Bates FRS, 1825 - 1892, ISBN 9780956071613.
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Bates IS mentioned in my brief biography of Wallace - see the link to the left. It is very interesting to hear that you have written a book on him - I will have to buy a copy!
Very informative. I never
Very informative. I never knew anything about Wallace until I visited this site. He is now more dear to my respects than any other scientist before or after him.
Translation
Great website. Does anyone know if there is a french translation of "The Malay Archipelago" ?
Thanks
Comment
I am from Argentina, and I read the Wallace's history for first time in the National Geographic Magazine. Afterwards, I found your website by chance, but nowadays, I really love this website! Your work is great.
Someday you are gonna make a version of this website in Spanish?
Information
This site is a great resource!
I am thankful for all the information compiled here because it is making my homework (one page of notes on Alfred Russell Wallace) much easier.
Much apreciated
Thanks for the fine posting, I find it very usefull.
Jim,
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Wallace's place in the History of Science
I just want to congratulate you for the great website about Alfred Russel Wallace's true place in the History of Science, especially his role in the construction of the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
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Thank you very much! If you or anyone else has any suggestions of what other material I could include on this website then please let me know.
Best wishes,
George
Wallace pdf's
Hi George,
Nice job with the site. Possible additional literature downloads of Wallace writings: The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface
http://books.google.com/books?id=HmqtZfTfQUMC
And the Internet Archive also has a number of works available, some obscure; it amazes me the breadth of taxa that Wallace covered at such a depth.
Best,
Mike
Darwin and Wallace
Anyone interested in reading my latest research entitled:
"It's Not Darwin's or Wallace's Theory"
should search "wainwrightscience" on Google
Best Wishes, Dr Milton Wainwright, Dept Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,Univeristy of Sheffield,UK
George, I was very
George,
I was very disappointed to read that the Darwin-Wallace medal presentation has been 'bumped' I was reading ARW's speech at the original presentation this afternoon. It is a marvellous tribute to the intellectual relationship between these two men, neither of whom, it seems to me, had a jealous bone in their body. The medal was inaugurated to commemorate their joint contribution to science and not as a birthday present for Darwin, who I'm sure would not have wanted the date to be moved.
I'll be doing my bit to commemorate the anniversary in July by making Alfred Russel Wallace my 'specialist subject' in the semi-finals of the BBC's Mastermind quiz to be recorded in the middle of the month. I'll let you know the broadcast date (some time in the autumn) once I know it.
Paul.
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Dear Paul,
I am very surprised (but delighted) that anyone would choose Wallace as their specialist subject for Mastermind! Well done, I hope you win! Please let us all know the broadcast date. Are you able to reveal beforehand how well you fared?
Best wishes,
George
I'll certainly let you know
I'll certainly let you know the date, and whilst I'm not really meant to tell you the outcome, I've already 'spilled the beans' on the first round by telling you I'm in the semi-finals, so why break a bad habit?
I suppose ARW's a bit obscure as a subject (although my first round was 'British Trotskyism to 1949' which I suspect makes him mainstream in many people's eyes) but his biography is pretty exciting, not many other people managed to cram into one lifetime:
exploring the most remote parts of three continents (and identifying the fact that two of them were not just one in the process);
being cast adrift in the Atlantic (and losing the fruits of several years collecting in the process);
bouncing back to make one epoch making, and several other pretty damned good, scientific discoveries;
championing a dizzying range of social and intellectual causes from the brilliantly far-sighted to the down-right bonkers;
I think it will make pretty good television -- roll on the min-series (who would you cast as The Man from Usk?)
Paul
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Yes, Wallace was an extraordinary person, and I'm sure the public would be fascinated by him if only someone would make a decent programme about him! In the last year or so, about six separate people have contacted me to say they were interested in making just such a programme or series. After talking to me at length about Wallace they went away and approached the BBC, National Geographic Channel or some other company for funding to make the programme, but all returned empty handed. Reading between the lines I think the BBC in particular have put a lot of their resources into making a large number of programmes about Darwin for 2009. They therefore don't have money to fund similar programmes AND they don't want to 'confuse' their viewers by bringing Wallace into the equation. No doubt their programmes about Darwin will hardly mention Wallace, so for another programme to proclaim that Wallace was co-discover of natural selection would be too much for their viewers to handle! I can reveal, however, that one person is so determined to make a programme about Wallace that he is planning to go ahead and make one anyway, without the BBC's blessing or financial assistance. So hopefully there will be at least one accurate programme about the discovery of natural selection next year!!!
Best wishes,
George
Letter 1888
Bonjour,
J'ai une lettre manuscrite de Alfred Russel Wallace à vous proposer
C'est une lettre manuscrite expédiée le 22 decembre 1888 de Tritt hill Godaluning à Mrs Purkis(?) qui concerne la traduction en français de l'ouvrage Malay Archipelago avec une recommandation pour le livre " Choses de l'autre monde d'Eugène Nus...
Etes vous intéressés? Combien m'en proposez vous? Réponsen français, please
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Je serais certainement très intéressé à voir une photographie de votre lettre. Si vous avez un puis veuillez me l'envoient à blaberus1@ntlworld.com Beaucoup de mercis,
George
Links section
There is a good wiki article on Wallace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
which is missing in your Links page.
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Thanks - I forgot about it. It has now been added.
I was hoping to find a copy
I was hoping to find a copy of Wallace's letter to Darwin that constituted his publication of the notion of natural selection. Is it available here? I would have e-mailed this inquiry to the webmaster but didn't see such an option available on this site.
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Unfortunately, Wallace's letter to Darwin and his enclosed essay proposing natural selection are lost. No one except Darwin, Lyell and perhaps Hooker ever saw the letter. The essay was also seen by them and the original was possibly given to the Linnean Society for publication. It is possible that the Society failed to return it. A transcript of the published essay is given here.
Wallace Biography
I have written, many years ago a biography on A. R. Wallace, it is in Spanish, and will be very happy send you a PDF of it. How can I do that.
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I would be very interested to see it. Please send it to g.beccaloni@nhm.ac.uk.
Thanks!
George
Wallace and Bates
Dear George and Jan,
I've learned from my father, who has written a book (in Portuguese) on Wallace and Bates, that the discrepancy between accessible information on the latter two and Darwin is most unfair. So I was delighted to find your site. I noticed that on the site there is a page for Wallace memorials so if you'd like, I can send you a photo of the plaque in honour of Bates and Wallace which the British Council (a project I was leading) donated to the Brazilian Institute of Amazonic Studies in 2004.
Please let me know if you are interested and where to send it to.
Good luck with the great work!
Roberta
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Dear Roberta,
Is that the plaque in Manaus? I have listed it on this page http://wallacefund.info/plaques-and-other-fixed-monument but very much like a photograph of it to use on this website (obviously I will fully credit the photographer). Please send me a message with your email address using the "contact us" link on this site's homepage and I will then send you my email address. You can then send the photo to that address. I don't want to list my email on this site since it will attract spam!
Best wishes,
George
Wallace events
Fantastic website. Congratulations. We met a few years ago when I visited the museum to look at the Wallace collection of butterflies. As a result, I developed a talk on Wallace and his butterflies and, I believe, it will be repeated at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, maybe this year. I think the society is also planning some sort of celebration of Wallace but exactly when I am not sure.
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Thanks very much Brian! Please let me know if the Bournemouth Natural Science Society does organise an event and I will list it on this website.
Best wishes,
George
Old orchard
I have just found your web site after reading the echo on saturday. finding it most interesting to know that wallace lived in broadstone and was just wondering if the old orchard is still about as i can remember playing in an orchard as a child just off springdale road. It is know julia's house am i thinking of the right place?
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Alfred Russel Wallace
I was pleased to see your letter in the Jan 25 2008 Thurrock Gazette, just come through my door, about Alfred Russel Wallace and your website. I have put a link to this on the Essex Field Club website.
Peter Harvey
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Thanks very much Peter!
Best wishes,
George
Congratulations. We met a few
Congratulations. We met a few years ago when I visited the museum to look at the Wallace collection of butterflies. As a result, I developed a talk on Wallace and his butterflies and, I believe, it will be repeated at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, maybe this year.
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