Revision of Curiosities from Sat, 2014-01-04 09:21

by George Beccaloni

This page contains interesting and curious things related to Wallace which I don't know where else to put!

Curious Visuals

1) Video showing a recreation of two famous Wallace photos using live bees for his beard!

2) Two Wallace tattoos! CLICK HERE and HERE

3) A Wallace rust painting.

4) History of evolution in cartoon form, featuring Wallace of course.

5) An excellent cartoon featuring Wallace as the Boy Wonder.

6) Wallace's great grandson's car number plate. Bill lives in Canada, where you can apparently have more-or-less what you like on your number plate for a small fee.
Wallace car number plate

7)  An impressive sculpture in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia, which was installed to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday, has a reference to Wallace on it, which reads "Where's WALLACE?". Their website explains: "Where’s W A L L A C E? This ‘Where’s Wally’ style question has been included in recognition of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) who postulated the theory of evolution at the same time as Darwin. The Darwin-Wallace paper was read before the Linnean Society 1 July 1858 and published in their Proceedings Vol. 3 1858. pp. 45-62." See their website HERE and images of the sculpture HERE.

8) "Where's Wallace?", a poster produced for Hertford Museum's exhibition "World of Wallace" in the style of the "Where's Wally?" books, not only has a picture of Wallace hiding in the rainforest, but also a picture of Wallace fan Bill Bailey! Here's a closeup of the poster.

9) Darwin and Wallace: the lost photograph.

10) Nice cartoon about Darwin and Wallace by Chris Madden in 2009.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith