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By Kevin Leonard
BBC News website
07:07 GMT, Monday, 26 January 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7847060.stm
An island in Indonesia is celebrating the life of a Welsh naturalist whose work on the theory of evolution was overshadowed by Charles Darwin.
Alfred Russel Wallace was in a remote part of what is now Indonesia when he wrote to Darwin about evolution.
By Chris Madden
Reproduced with permission from http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/wordpress/?p=260
Originally posted on January 22, 2009 8:55 pm
Here’s an illustration that I executed recently for the cover of the magazine Philosophy Now.
As you can see, it’s about Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection.
The following short article about the plans to rebuild Wallace's Ternate house, was published today (January 9) in Science (vol. 323):
"Giving Wallace His Due
My last post discussed attempts which had been made to locate the house which Wallace lived in on the Indonesian island of Ternate, but it has occurred to me that some readers may not know what is so special about this house; so let me explain:-
Ian Cowan of Turner, ACT, Australia recently sent me an interesting unpublished essay about the search for Wallace's famous house on the Indonesian island of Ternate - the house in which Wallace was living when he posted his essay describing his independent discovery of natural selection to Charles Darwin in 1858. Ian's essay follows:-
On Saturday 22nd November 2008 the Scientific and Medical Network (http://www.scimednet.org/) organised a conference at the Linnean Society of London on the life and work of Alfred Russel Wallace, in order to commemorate the 150th anniversary this year of Wallace's independent discovery of evolution by natural selection (see http://www.scimednet.org/conference_pages/08_Wallace_conference.htm).
The following very interesting article was published in The Jakarta Post today (see http://old.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20081212.H04&irec=4):
Ternate to build Wallace observatory
Andi Hajramurni and Tifa Asrianti, The Jakarta Post, Makassar, South Sulawesi
