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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. 
*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.
*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.
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
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).
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.
Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
[Disappearing Legacies: The World as a Forest]
10 November 2017 – 29 March 2018
Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak)
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 []):
At the conclusion of the Alfred Russel Wallace Centenary Celebration, in Autumn 2015, Richard Milner, Associate in Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, produced and edited excellent special Wallace Issues of Natural History magazine and Skeptic magazine, both of which are now available to all as free downloads.
On October 14th 2017, after delivering the Wallace Memorial Fund's 4th A. R. Wallace Lecture at University College London, Dr James Costa was awarded the Wallace Memorial Fund's silver Wallace Medal for his outstanding contributions to Wallace scholarship. This Sterling Silver medal is the Wallace Fund's highest award.
A video of Costa's excellent lecture "Convincing Lyell: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Great Transmutation Debate" can be seen HERE.
