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WALLACE, DARWIN AND EVOLUTION EXHIBITION
Alfred Russel Wallace Day, Usk, Wales.
Assorted Alfred Russel Wallace News
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE DAY in Usk, Wales, Sunday 21st September 2008.
Don't forget the Wallace event in Usk, Wales next Sunday! Details are as follows:
Sunday 21 September 2008, 10.30 - 3.45
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE DAY. In celebration of the announcement 150 years ago, by Wallace and Darwin, of Evolution by Natural Selection, The Sessions House. Usk, Monmouthshire.Conference on Alfred Russel Wallace & Wallacea in Makassar, Indonesia
Docudrama about Alfred Russel Wallace and the discovery of natural selection.
I am delighted to report that thanks to a kind colleague, I received a few days ago a copy of THE FORGOTTEN VOYAGE, the docudrama I really wanted to watch about Wallace's discovery of natural selection (see my post from the 21st August below). This 50 minute film was directed by Peter Crawford and broadcast by the BBC as part of its The World About Us series in 1983.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of the theory of evolution by natural selection!
Today, the 20th August 2008, is the 150th anniversary of the publication of the theory of evolution by natural selection by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. To read their epoch-making paper click HERE and to read an account of how they came to publish the theory together click HERE.
TV programmes about Alfred Russel Wallace
I can reveal the exciting news that two production companies in the UK are seriously considering making TV documentaries about Wallace which would be broadcast next year as a 'response' to the many programmes about Darwin which the BBC and others are currently making to coincide with the Darwin anniversary celebrations of 2009.
Alfred Russel Wallace's grandson sticks up for his grandfather!