By George Beccaloni, September 2019
On the 30th August 2019, magnificent life-size bronze statues of Alfred Russel Wallace and his faithful assistant Ali were unveiled outside the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore. Wallace is pointing at a Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise, a sculpture of which is on a nearby pillar, and Ali
The statue of Wallace is based on the statue of him by Anthony Smith which the Wallace Memorial Fund donated to London's Natural History Museum in 2013. The statue of Ali is unique and is based on the only photograph of him, which was taken in Singapore in 1862.