The Wallace Correspondence Project is looking for 2 enthusiastic volunteers to join their small team at the Natural History Museum, London, for one day a week, to assist with various project tasks.
The WCP is a three year project to locate, catalogue and summarise all known correspondence of the great Victorian naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace’s greatest claim to fame is that he was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin. The catalogue, plus scans of as many of the letters as possible, will be made available online free of charge.
We are looking for someone with;
- Good IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Experience of using databases
- Experience of cataloguing
- Interest in history of science/Victorian history
- Enthusiasm
If you are interested in applying, please send your CV or a summary of your experience, by email to Caroline Catchpole, WCP Archivist at c.catchpole@nhm.ac.uk. If interest is high, it is likely we will invite short listed candidates to come and meet the team for an informal chat and see the Wallace Collection in early January.
For more information about volunteering at the Museum, please see http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/jobs-volunteering-internships/volunteering-interns-information/index.html
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