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'''Alfred Russel Wallace'''
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ESL Council 1869-70 Member<br /><br />AI Council 1873 Member<br />AI Council 1874 Member<br />
=== House Notes ===
Ordinary Fellow elected Member in accordance with this law: The Council are empowered to remit the subscriptions in a limited number of cases, where it may be found desirable to elect gentlemen to the Fellowship, who are distinguished for their services to Ethnological Science, and whose circumstances render it inconvenient to them to make the necessary payment<br />death noted in the report of the council for 1913: Dr. A. R. Wallace, though pre-eminently a biologist, was deeply interested in Anthropology. His contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection will always take a place second to Darwin's " Origin of Species " and his eminent services to science were recognised by his being granted a Pension on the Civil List and more recently by his being one of the earliest recipients of the Order of Merit.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.<br /><br />Hon. Member of Society for Psychical Research 1884<br /><br />Born Usk, Monmouthshire; died Broadstone, Dorset. Basically self-taught in a whole range of subjects, including natural history.<br />Worked for brother as architect and land surveyor 1838-44. Amazon expedition 1848-52; Malay archipelago 1854-62. Co-discoverer of natural selection and in later life published on almost every aspect of natural history. <br />Honorary degrees from Dublin and Oxford and declined any more. Numerous medals from learned societies. OM 1910.<br />
