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THE LETTER FROM TERNATE: A BOOK TO MARK THE 2013 WALLACE ANNIVERSARY

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.

Tue, 2013-04-23 12:34 -- George Beccaloni
The house Wallace built in Grays, Essex is up for sale!

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!

Mon, 2013-04-22 11:02 -- George Beccaloni
BBC programme about Wallace to be broadcast this Sunday.

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.

Tue, 2013-04-16 11:28 -- George Beccaloni
Donors to the Wallace statue

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!

Tue, 2013-02-19 23:54 -- George Beccaloni
Video of talk about Wallace's life and work

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).

Sat, 2013-02-02 21:28 -- George Beccaloni
Halfway to a Wallace statue, but time is running out!

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.

Tue, 2013-01-29 22:44 -- George Beccaloni
Wales to 'rescue' Wallace statue campaign?

The following Press Release has been sent out by the office of Welsh MP Joyce Watson:

Sat, 2013-01-26 09:21 -- George Beccaloni
Wallace Letters Online is now live!

Wallace Letters Online (WLO), the Wallace Correspondence Project's online archive of Wallace's letters, is now live on the Natural History Museum's website - see http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/collections/library-collections/wallace-letters-online/index.html (a short url is http://www.nhm.ac.uk/walla

Thu, 2013-01-24 11:51 -- George Beccaloni
Update on fundraising for the Wallace sculpture

I am disappointed to report that the campaign to raise funds for a unique life-size statue of Wallace to mark the 100th anniversary of his death this year is still £30,000 away from its target, and there are only a few days left... Unfortunately the fundraising has to stop on the 31st January 2013 to give the sculptor enough time to produce the work for the anniversary on the 7th November.

Sat, 2013-01-19 15:21 -- George Beccaloni
Visit To Wallace’s Sumatran Collection Site of Lobo Raman June, 2012

By Jerry Drawhorn

Thu, 2013-01-10 21:53 -- George Beccaloni

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