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By George Beccaloni PhD, September 2026
PDF version here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22658035
Introduction
People often ask why Alfred Russel Wallace, who was one of the most famous scientists of his time and the independent co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, became so much less well known than Charles Darwin.
NEW ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE MEMORIAL UNVEILED AT AMPENAN, LOMBOK
Southern Misool Island, Raja Ampat
The sad fate of Alfred Russel Wallace’s brother Edward and the rediscovery of his burial place in Brazil
By George Beccaloni & Ildeu de Castro Moreira, March 2026
By George Beccaloni, May 2025.
Alfred Russel Wallace's 1855 essay, popularly known as the 'Sarawak Law', was one of the most important scientific papers about evolution published prior to the discovery of its primary mechanism, natural selection (a theory jointly published in 1858 by him and Charles Darwin
Here is a link to a 30 minute programme about Wallace on BBC Radio Wales, which has interviews with Wallace's great grandchildren, Bill and Sue, and the WMF Chair Dr George Beccaloni: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025rs0 The episode was broadcast on 10 December 2024, and will be permanently available on the BBC Wales Science Cafe website.
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.
