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It's going to be quite a year, with several radio and TV programmes, about 10 books, museum exhibitions in 6 or 7 countries, five or so conferences, plus many other assorted events. To keep up-to-date with what's happening check the Wallace100 events diary throughout the year on a regular basis.
Hooray! We have reached a milestone with the fundraising for the Wallace statue, in that we have just reached £15,000 - which is enough money to commission a twice-life-size portrait bust of Wallace (if all else fails). Even though there is less than 1.5 months to go before the fundraising campaign has to close, I remain optimistic that we will reach the target of £50,000.
A VERY BIG thank-you to the 40 or so very generous people who have contributed to the statue campaign so far!
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Press release: Natural History Museum marks centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace |
The Wallace Memorial Fund's fundraising campaign for a life-size statue of Wallace for the Natural History Museum, London, has only about 2.5 months left to raise the remaining £38,000 it needs! Only about £12,000 has so far been donated by c. 15 generous individuals, so in an attempt to boost donations the Fund has launched a free prize draw with some amazing prizes! Please see http://wallacefund.info/free-prize-draw
Richard Milner, (author of Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z) is continuing to develop plans for a large Alfred Russel Wallace Centenary Project, to begin in 2013. He would love to hear about Wallace-inspired or influenced scholarly and scientific research projects, papers, and activities from biologists, historians of science, anthropologists, ethologists, prehistorians and archeologists, ethicists, theologians, philosophers, primatologists, and others, which might benefit from funding
A beautiful small hand printed and hand bound book is currently being produced by Tim Preston (timpress@me.com) to mark next year's Wallace anniversary. Tim's day job is in magazine publishing, and his hobby is also publishing - using a mechanical Albion hand printing press, which dates from the 1870's (see photo below). Once the pages have been printed Tim will glue in all the illustrations and the books will then be professionally hand bound in cloth. Only 100 individually numbered copies will be produced and some have been reserved already.
Dr Tony Whitten the Asia Pacific Regional Director of Fauna & Flora International tells me that there have been a few cancellations on a cruise which he has helped to organise and that there are cabins available for half price to anyone who would like to go on the trip (rather than just to FFI members)!
Atlantis Films, a German company, is working on a docudrama about Wallace for release next year. It is called "Wallace - A Giant in Darwin's Shadow" and will be 53 minutes long. See http://www.atlantis-film.de/news/news for more information and for a trailer see http://vimeo.com/31046879 or below. It looks fairly good, but I did spot some errors in the trailer!
Historian of Science Dr John van Wyhe (University of Singapore), officially launched his Wallace Online website today - see http://wallace-online.org/ Wallace Online is the first complete edition of Wallace's published writings (22 books and over 900 articles). It also contains records of manuscript items compiled from several electronic catalogues, which means that these can be conveniently searched using a single interface.
The Wallace Memorial Fund has today sent out the Press Release below, appealing for funds for a magnificent and unique life-size bronze statue to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death next year (7th November 2013). You can help the campaign in various ways e.g. by posting the text and images below on relevant websites and blogs, or telling potential donors about the campaign. Your help (in whatever way) would be very much appreciated. Wouldn't it be great to see the statue and think that you helped to make it a reality!
