Revision of Other things named after Wallace from Wed, 2014-01-01 17:01

By George Beccaloni & Charles Smith

1. "Wallace's Line" is a boundary that separates the zoogeographical regions of Asia (to the west of it) and Australasia (to the east). The line runs through the Lombok Strait between the islands of Bali and Lombok, then runs between Borneo and Sulawesi, and from there continues northward to separate the Philippine island of Mindanao from the small islands of Sangir and Talaud that lie south of it. The significance of the line is that it identifies a major (though not entirely abrupt) faunal discontinuity: many major groups found to the west of the line do not extend east of it, and vice versa.
2. "Wallacea" is the name of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions
3. "Wallace's realms" are the world's six basic zoogeographical regions
4. The "Wallace-Weismann hypothesis" is a name sometimes given to the idea that death in individual organisms is programmed, representing an adaptive strategy.
5. The "Wallace Effect" concerns the relation of reproductive isolation to the production of sterile hybrids (and ultimately to the speciation process)
6. A 26 km meteor crater on the Moon was named "Wallace" in 1935. It is situated in the Mare Imbrium lava plain
7. A 159 km crater on Mars was named "Wallace" in 1973
8. "Mt. Wallace" (13,377 ft.), named by Theodore S. Solomons in 1895, is one of the "Evolution Group" peaks of the Sierra Nevada in California
9. The "Wallace Trench" is an undersea chasm located between New Guinea/Australia and Java/Borneo and nearly 7,500 m (25,000 ft) deep. It was not breached during periods of lowered Pleistocene sea levels, so population movement from southeast Asia to Sahul was accomplished, of necessity, via water.
10. Bristol Zoo Gardens in Bristol, U.K. has a large open air walk-through aviary named the "Wallace Aviary"
11. The Department of Earth Sciences at Cardiff University, Wales has a "Wallace Lecture Theatre"
12. Bournemouth University in Bournemouth, UK has a "Wallace Lecture Theatre"
13. Swansea University has a "Wallace Lecture Theatre"
14. The National Botanic Garden of Wales, near Carmarthen, Wales has a "Wallace Garden" dedicated to genetics and evolution education
15. Bournemouth Natural Sciences Society (of which Wallace was a founder) has a "Wallace Room"
16. Richard Hale School (formerly the Hertford Grammar School) in Hertford has had a house or division called "Wallace House" since 1928
17. A health center in Broadstone, Dorset, (18 Kirkway) is named "Wallace House". In the waiting room is (or was) a plaque and clay picture of Wallace.
18. There are Russel Roads in Grays in Essex and Bournemouth in Dorset and Wallace Roads in Grays and Neath, Wales and a Wallace Close in Usk, Wales (Wallace lived in or near these towns). However, I do not know if they are named after Wallace.
19. The road leading past the site of Wallace's house "Old Orchard" in Broadstone, Dorset is called "Wallace Road" (Old Orchard was knocked down in 1964).
    

    Wallace Road, Broadstone, Dorset. Copyright G. Beccaloni.

20. A road in Singapore is named "Wallace Way" in his honor. 
21. An alley in Ternate is named in his honor - the image to the right shows Bill Bailey beneath the sign for it.
22. A block of apartments at the end of Wallace Road in Broadstone, Dorset is named "Wallace Court" .
23. The Zoological Society Wallacea is a society for zoological research in South East Asia. It publishes the Journal of the Zoological Society Wallacea.
24. The Wallacea Institute was set up by Hasanuddin University in Makassar to facilitate the work of Indonesian scientists conducting research focusing on conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources in the Wallacea region.
25. Yayasan Wallacea (The Wallacea Foundation) is a conservation-directed and socially-minded NGO based on Ambon island, Indonesia.
26. Operation Wallacea is an organisation which runs biological and conservation management research programmes that operate in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed to educate young people and have with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes.
27. Project Wallace was organized in 1985 by the Royal Entomological Society of London and the Indonesian Department of Science to undertake a year-long study of the Dumoga-Bone area of north Sulawesi in Indonesia.
28. The Natural History Museum, London, holds an annual Wallace Lecture in November, the first of which was given by James Moore (Open University, UK) in 2006. This lecture series is currently suspended.
29. Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore has a Wallace Education Centre which was officially opened on 22 May, 2009, the International Day for Biological Diversity. The Education Centre houses WELL - the Wallace Environmental Learning Laboratory. Outside the building is a Wallace Trail.