The Battle to Claim the 'Real' Site of Wallace's Ternate House
The house that Alfred Russel Wallace rented on the "earthquake-tortured island of Ternate" in Indonesia has become legendary thanks to the fact that he was living there when he sent his famous essay on evolution by natural selection to Charles Darwin in March 1858. The house was largely made from plant material (wood and thatch) and would have rotted away long, long, ago, although a former Sultan of Ternate claimed that one of his more substantially built concrete houses was THE house.
Today, May 15 2023, the Wallace Memorial Fund awarded its silver medal to leading Wallace scholar 
Bill (William Russel) Wallace has kindly agreed to take on the role of Honorary Treasurer for the Wallace Memorial Fund. He is the great-grandson of Alfred Russel Wallace and replaces his late father Richard (1924 - 2022) in the role.
