Singapore Science Centre’s Wallace Exhibition Spreads Tiger Beetle Myth
Trouble With Tiger Beetles: Singapore Science Centre’s Wallace Exhibition Spreads Tiger Beetle Myth
By George Beccaloni
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Alfred Russel Wallace on Postage Stamps
Prof. Indraneil Das, an ecologist and herpetologist with an interest in philately who works at the University of Malaysia Sarawak, recently sent me a copy of an interesting poster which he and a colleague produced for the recent Wallace conference in Sarawak about postage stamps featuring Wallace. Neil has kindly agreed that I can share it on this website - please see below.
Happy 191st Birthday Wallace!!
Happy 191st Birthday Wallace - you've had a busy year!!
Wallace on his 80th birthday - 8th January 1903
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Wallace’s Death - in Ternate
Tony Whitten, Asia-Pacific Regional Director of Fauna & Flora International and leader of the 'In the Wake of Wallace' cruise has sent us an account of the Wallace centenary celebrations in the town from which Wallace sent his world-changing letter to Charles Darwin on the mechanism of evolution:
A new Wallace sculpture for Hertford!
A new sculpture of Wallace is to be made for the town of Hertford where Wallace went to school. Sculptor Rodney Munday has been awarded the commission to produce the piece and he has sent me the following article which explains the project:
"Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago" by van Wyhe and Rookmaaker
I had been looking forward to reading John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker's new book Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago as the adverts for it state that it contains "recently discovered letters".
Biodiversity Heritage Library's (BHL) Celebration of Wallace
Biodiversity Heritage Library's (BHL) digital campaign celebrating the life of Alfred Russel Wallace will run over the course of next week, Nov 4-8. The BHL is a digital library project dedicated to providing open access to the world's legacy biodiversity literature and thus have some of Wallace's works in their collection, see http://biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/1522#/titles.
The Forgotten Voyage: an excellent film about Wallace is now on YouTube
The BEST film ever made about Wallace has just been made available on YouTube - the first time it has been made publicly available since it was broadcast by the BBC as part of its 'The World About Us' series back in 1983. It is called 'The Forgotten Voyage' and everyone who is interested in Wallace should watch it.
Win tickets to see Sir David Attenborough lecture on Wallace on 7th November
Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, London
7 November 2013 (The 100th anniversary of Wallace's
death)
Time: 17:30 - 18:30To commemorate the centenary of Wallace's death, Sir David Attenborough will
give a lecture at the Museum about Wallace's passion for birds of paradise.
Wallace studied the birds during his travels in the Malay Archipelago between
1854 and 1862.Wallace centenary event in Usk on the 100th anniversary of his death - 7th November 2013
