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The 4th A.R. Wallace Lecture: Saturday 14th October in London, UK
Saturday 14th October 2017
14.30–16.00 (please arrive at 14.15)
Darwin Lecture Theatre (Darwin Building B40 LT),
University College London, Gower St., Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6XAToday is the 159th Anniversary of the reading of Darwin and Wallace's papers on natural selection!
Today is the 159th anniversary of the reading of the Darwin-Wallace paper on evolution by natural selection at the Linnean Society of London - an event which was to change biology, and the way Homo sapiens views itself, forever!
Radio Programme About Darwin & Wallace
Australia's ABC Radio broadcast a 22 minute interview with George Beccaloni on the June 18 2017 - the 159th anniversary of the arrival of Wallace's essay on natural selection at Charles Darwin's house in Kent, England. The packet containing the essay plus a covering letter, was posted from the small 'Spice Island' of Ternate in Indonesia in March or possibly April of 1858, arriving at Darwin’s house in Downe on 18 June 1858.
A new publication: Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago
Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago explores the legacies of colonial science in Southeast Asia, asking how to meaningfully re-calibrate the natural histories of the Malay Archipelago in our era, which some have called the “Plantationocene.” In dealing with various natural history
The Trip of a Lifetime: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures
*AS OF OCTOBER 2017 THIS TRIP IS FULLY BOOKED*
Bill Bailey's Appreciation of Wallace's Book 'The Malay Archipelago'
An Appreciation of Wallace's Book 'The Malay Archipelago'
By Bill Bailey (Patron of the Wallace Memorial Fund)
An appreciation of Alfred Russel Wallace by his grandson Richard
THE GRANDFATHER OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
By Richard Russel Wallace
More details about the magnificent new edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's book "The Malay Archipelago" published by the Folio Society
‘The book is magnificent – very many congratulations to you and your team! It is undoubtedly the finest edition of MA ever produced and I really can't see how it could have been bettered… I am truly honoured to have been involved in its production!’ George Beccaloni
Details about the book
A magnificent edition of Wallace's book "The Malay Archipelago" has just been published.
The first ever 'deluxe' edition of Wallace's book The Malay Archipelago has just been published by London's prestigious Folio Society in two beautifully bound volumes with a slipcase. Both volumes are illustrated with stunning full page colour plates (33 per volume), which feature Wallace’s own skillful watercolour paintings, plus contemporary illustrations of places he visited, and a selection of some of the amazing animal species he discovered. The book has a preface by Prof.