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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:
By Dr George Beccaloni, September 2022
8th July 2022
Medals Awarded to Discoverer of Evolution by Natural Selection to be Sold
The prestigious medals awarded to honour the discovery of evolution by natural selection will be sold at auction in a few day's time. This is arguably the most important scientific theory ever proposed, so these awards must surely be some of the most important cultural objects in the history of science.
Well, not really, but on this day in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's independently originated identical theories of evolution by natural selection, were announced at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London. Their joint paper on the subject was published a month later, revolutionising the field of biology and shaking the foundations of religious belief (and, no, the paper was not ignored as many have said, look out for a paper I will be publishing soon!).
By Dr George Beccaloni, February 2022 (revised July 2022).
