An exciting week of Wallace-related events in Wales
Below is a table of the events running during Wallace week in Neath, Wales between 15th – 22nd June 2013.
Click on the event and it will take you to a page with more details.
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Below is a table of the events running during Wallace week in Neath, Wales between 15th – 22nd June 2013.
Click on the event and it will take you to a page with more details.
Please support the Ancestor's Trail who are very kindly trying to raise the other half of the money required for the Wallace Fund's bronze statue of Wallace for London's Natural History Museum. Check out the Ancestor's Trail website and their Facebook page. The event they are organising on the August Bank Holiday looks like great fun!
One of the many things I collect is any memorabilia associated with the two 'founding fathers' of modern evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Whilst items bearing Darwin's likeness, such as fridge magnets, key-ring fobs, figurines, old cigarette cards, postage stamps and even sugar packets, are relatively common, it is much, much more difficult to find any 'tat' emblazoned with Wallace phizog.
A very special book is currently being produced to commemorative the Wallace anniversary this year. The Letter from Ternate is being hand printed by Tim Preston on his Victorian Albion printing press at a rate of only about two pages per day. It is a labor of love, and poor Tim has been printing for five weeks so far. Fortunately the end is now in sight. Once printing is finished, the book will be professionally hand-bound and engravings and other illustrations tipped-in. There will be a pocket on the inside back cover with additional pictures and other material.
The Dell, the amazing house Wallace built in Grays in Essex from the profits of his trip to the Malay Archipelago is up for sale! See http://www.thedellessex.co.uk/ Considering it has 9 bedrooms the price of £1,500,000 isn't too bad I guess! However, I don't think I will be snapping it up!
Be sure to watch this on BBC2 this Sunday (21st April):
For more information, plus clips from the programmes and a lot more, go to the BBC's Jungle Hero website.
I have finally produced a list of all the donors to the Wallace statue campaign, which was not a straightforward job for various reasons. A total of 74 generous people and organisations contributed - so a very big thank-you to all of you!
A c. 30 minute video of a talk by George Beccaloni and Caroline Catchpole about Wallace's early life and his adventures in the Amazon Basin and the Malay Archipelago is available at the following link for a very limited time only [it is an experiment]: https://vimeo.com/58786695 (the case sensitive password = Wallace).
Exciting news - we have just reached the halfway mark in the fundraising for the statue - we now have about £25,0001 of the £50,000 needed!! We can now afford to commission a large-than-life head-and-torso bust with plinth, which is about half the bronze which would go in to making a 10% larger than life statue which is obviously the ultimate goal.