Fifty-two of UK artist Fred Langford Edwards' striking images of Wallace's drawings, notebook pages and animal specimens from his epic expedition to the 'Malay Archipelago' (Indonesia and Malaysia) will go on display at the upmarket Plaza Senayan shopping mall in south Jakarta (Java, Indonesia) from the 19th until the 30th of November 2008. They will be accompanied by a smaller selection of images taken by National Geographic Indonesia photographers. The captions for Fred's images were written by yours truly:- I am the scientific collaborator on his Wellcome Trust funded project "Alfred Russel Wallace: The Forgotten Evolutionist", which aims to explore the life, ideas, and surviving collections of Wallace, and the physical hardships he endured during his travels. Generous sponsorship from David J. S. Hallmark (UK representative of The Wallacea Foundation of Indonesia) enabled three sets of prints to be made. It is planned that the two duplicate sets will be displayed in Geneva and Paris (more details when I have them).
The Jakarta exhibition is entitled "Letter from Ternate" and it commemorates the 150th anniversary this year of Wallace's independent discovery of natural selection in Indonesia (he wrote an essay detailing his idea which he posted to Charles Darwin from Ternate, Indonesia in March 1858). The exhibition is being organised by the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI), National Geographic Indonesia, The Wallacea Foundation, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and Conservation International Indonesia. The driving forces behind it are Prof Sangkot Marzuki (Director of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology), Ms Tuti Hadiputranto (founding partner of Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners (HHP)) and David Hallmark (UK). Between the 10th and 13th of December the exhibition will be on show at the "Letter from Ternate" conference in Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia (see http://wallacefund.info/conference-alfred-russel-wallace-wallacea-makassar-indonesia), and after the conference it may move to other venues in Indonesia.
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