Alfred Russel Wallace
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Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858
Wallace in 1895
A photograph from Wallace's autobiography shows the building Wallace and his brother John designed and built for the Neath Mechanics' Institute.
Arenga pinnata sketched by Wallace in Celebes, reworked by Walter Hood Fitch
Wallace collected many specimens, such as this Mino anais anais from South West Papua, 1863.
The Malay Archipelago
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The Malay Archipelago is a book by the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the M
Title page of first edition
Treeps, Hurstpierpoint, the house where The Malay Archipelago was largely written
"The Great Shielded Grasshopper" drawn and signed by E. W. Robinson
"Remarkable Beetles Found at Simunjon, Borneo: Neocerambyx æneas, Cladognathus tarandus, Diurus furcellatus, Ectatorhinus Wallacei, Megacriodes Saundersii, Cyriopalpus Wallacei"