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In February 1858 Alfred Russel Wallace discovered evolution by natural selection while suffering from malaria in the remote village of Dodinga on Halmahera Island in Indonesia's beautiful Maluku Islands.
By George Beccaloni PhD, May 2024
(work in progress)
Photos of the Linnean Society of London's Wallace exhibition by Andrew Wakefield, December 2023.
The exhibition cellebrated the bicentenary of Wallace's birth, and ran from June until the 20th December 2023.
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.
By George Beccaloni, August 2023
Well, you can chat with an AI system designed to mimic Wallace. You can access it here: https://deepai.org/chat/alfred-russel-wallace I asked it a number of questions, some of which are shown below together with the answers the system gave. I have not shown a number of other answers to more specific questions which the system got very wrong indeed!
Today, May 15 2023, the Wallace Memorial Fund awarded its silver medal to leading Wallace scholar Charles H.
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.
A final plea to save Wallace's historically very important medals from disappearing into a private collection:
