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On Saturday October 18 a wonderful new sculpture of Wallace was unveiled in Hertford, UK, the town where Wallace went to school. It was created by talented local sculptor Rodney Munday who had won a public competition to produce the work.
The sculpture was the brainchild of Hertford Civic Society and Malcolm Ramsay of the Society oversaw the project from beginning to end.
Anthony Smith's wonderful bronze statue of Wallace (right) which the Wallace Memorial Fund gifted to London's Natural History Museum has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2014 Marsh Award for E
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago – The Singapore Statue Campaign
By Barry Clarke
For more information see: https://www.eeb.ucla.edu/arwallace
Check out the advert below for UCLA's Wallace Centennial Celebration, which is taking place on the 15th November 2014. There are lots of very interesting talks by a number of famous speakers. Attend if you can! See their website for more information: https://www.eeb.ucla.edu/arwallace
On Saturday 12th July my wife and I took our friend the American Wallace scholar Jim Costa, on a visit to Hertford - the town north of London where Wallace went to school. Although it was a 'fun' rather than research trip I did discover a few things which I thought would be worthwhile reporting:
Some months ago Darwin historian Janet Browne mentioned to me that no 19th century cartoons mentioning Wallace are known. Well, I just 'discovered' one (albeit an unpublished one) which was mentioned on an interesting post by Brian Switek on his Laelaps blog in 2011 - see http://www.wired.com/2011/11/repost-divine-intervention-dinosaurs-and-da... and below (No, Wallace isn't the chap in the centre!).
