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Visit Some of the Magical Places Alfred Russel Wallace Travelled to in Indonesia and Help the Wallace Correspondence Project!
The 150th Anniversary of Wallace's Book "The Malay Archipelago" Approaches!
Next year (2019) sees the 150th anniversary of the publication of Wallace's excellent book about his travels in Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor and Singapore - The Malay Archipelago.
Wallace Correspondence Project Sub-editor/Researcher Post is Advertised
*Job Announcement*
Sub-editor/Researcher - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £32,127 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
Wallace Correspondence Project Archivist Post is Advertised
*Job Announcement*
Archivist - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £31,327 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
New Book: Where Australia Collides with Asia
Ian Burnet has asked me to post the Prologue of his new book Where Australia Collides with Asia: The epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin of ‘The Origin of Species’ so here it is:
Prologue
Wallace Correspondence Project to Restart December 1st 2017.
Very good news for myself and my A. R. Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP)! The agreement for the grant which will fund the project for 2 years and 9 months was officially signed today and work on the project is due to restart on December 1st! The funder is the John Templeton Foundation and the charity which will host the grant is the Charles Darwin Trust (CDT).
Wanted DEAD or ALIVE! [But a photo will do]
Singaporean spider expert Joseph Koh sent the following request:
Friula wallacei (photo below) -- This spectacular araneid is related to Gasteracantha and other members of the subfamily Gasteracanthinae. It is noteworthy for two reasons:
(a) It was collected in Sarawak by Alfred Russel Wallace himself;
(b) It has not been collected since, and therefore the specimen at Oxford University is the only specimen in the world.
Major Wallace-related Exhibition Opening Soon in Hamburg, Germany
Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
[Disappearing Legacies: The World as a Forest]10 November 2017 – 29 March 2018
Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak)
A Critique of "Collection and Discovery: Indigenous Guides and Alfred Russel Wallace in Southeast Asia, 1854-1862"
I have just read a recently published article by Carey McCormack entitled "Collection and Discovery: Indigenous Guides and Alfred Russel Wallace in Southeast Asia, 1854-1862". Sadly her knowledge about biology, natural history collecting and taxonomy seems to be low. Here is a selection of some the statements she made in her article (my comments follow in []):