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The Natural History Museum in London is coordinating Wallace100 and has just launched the Wallace100 home page - see http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/wallace/index.html
There is also a Wallace100 events page - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/wallace/events/index.html
I have been asked by the Natural History Museum in London (where I work) to write posts for a blog designed to keep people up-to-date with the many exciting Wallace-related activities which are being planned by the Museum and others around the world to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death in 2013 (a global celebration we are calling Wallace100).
The Wallace Fund is extremely grateful to Dr Alan Smith CBE, FRS for getting the campaign to raise funds for a life-size bronze statue of Wallace off to an excellent start with a very generous donation of £10,000 GBP. Alan believes, as we do, that Wallace provides an excellent role model for getting children interested in science. The statue will certainly help inspire the many children who will see it.
Anthropologist Richard Milner, (author of Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z) is developing plans for a large Alfred Russel Wallace Centenary Project, to begin in 2013, the hundredth anniversary of the great naturalist’s death, for which he is seeking funding from the John Templeton Foundation and possibly other sources.
The Wallace Memorial Fund has today launched its most ambitious fund-raising campaign yet - a drive to raise £50,000 (GBP) for a magnificent life-size bronze statue of Wallace, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death on the 7th November 2013 (see http://wallacefund.info/statue and http://wallacefund.info/notes-wallace-statue). It will be offered to the The Natural History Museum in London, and the intention is that it will be unveiled on the actual anniversary date next year.
In 2012, Sreela Banerjee of the Pyr Project told me about a brilliant song the project produced about Wallace. It is called 'Wallace was a very busy man' - and it was sung by the Charles Matthews Singers, who are children (largely) from Mickleton Primary School, in Gloucestershire. To hear it click HERE.
The patron of the Wallace Memorial Fund, Bill Bailey, and the patron of the Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP), Sir David Attenborough, met each other for the first time last night in the Natural History Museum in London. They were both involved in filming for a two part series about Wallace, which is being presented by Bill, and will be broadcast early in 2013.
Many thanks to those of you who completed the Natural History
Museum's survey to choose a logo for Wallace100. The survey closed on Tuesday
June 19th, and I can report that an overwhelming majority preferred
logo 1 – thinking that it was more eye-catching, appealing, legible etc than
logo 2. A final version of logo 1 will now be produced, before it is released
for use. Watch this space!
There is so much Wallace-related stuff going on at the moment in preparation for the anniversary of his death next year, that I have had to neglect this blog somewhat. Not only am I heavily involved in the planning for the London Natural History Museum's series of Wallace-related events for 2013 (called Wallace100) but I am also working on a number of other Wallace projects. One of these is a campaign to raise funds for a life-size bronze statue of Wallace for the Natural History Museum, which will be the Wallace Memorial Fund's main contribution to the 2013 celebrations.
The Natural History Museum in London is conducting a public survey to help choose a logo for Wallace100. Wallace100 is the name for an informal international association of partners with projects designed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Wallace’s death in 2013.
