Alfred Russel Wallace
| Alfred Russel Wallace DCL, FRS, FLS, FRGS, FZS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1823 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1913 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
9 St Mark's Crescent NW [1867] Holly House Tanner Street Barking The Dell, Grays, Essex [1872] Waldron Edge, Duppas-hill, Croydon [1879] Pen-y-bryn, St Peter's Road, Croydon, SE [1881] Nutwood Cottage, Frith Hill, Godalming [1883] Corfe View, Parkeston, Dorset [1894] Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset [1902] | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
anthropologist explorer naturalist geographer | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1869-70 Member
AI Council 1873 Member
AI Council 1874 Member
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
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.
Hon. Member of Society for Psychical Research 1884
Born Usk, Monmouthshire; died Broadstone, Dorset. Basically self-taught in a whole range of subjects, including natural history.
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.
Honorary degrees from Dublin and Oxford and declined any more. Numerous medals from learned societies. OM 1910.
Publications
External Publications
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1853). Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses. (BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY). London. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1869). The Malay Archipelago. Harper. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1870). Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (GOOGLE BOOKS) (2nd ed.). Macmillan and Company. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1876). The Geographical Distribution of Animals (GOOGLE BOOKS). Harper and brothers. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1878). Tropical Nature, and Other Essays (GOOGLE BOOKS). Macmillan. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1881). Island Life. Harper and brothers. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889). Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of Its Applications. Macmillan. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889). Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (GOOGLE BOOKS) (1889 ed.). Ward, Lock. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1904). Man's Place in the Universe (GUTENBERG). Chapman & Hall. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1905). My Life (GOOGLE BOOKS). Chapman & Hall.
House Publications
ESL On the ethnology of the Indian archipelago
On civilization in North Celebes TES iv 61-70
The Malay archipelago JES NS i 81-83
ASL On natural selection applied to anthropology AR v 103-105
The origins of human races and the antiquity of man deduced from the theory of 'natural selection' AR ii JAS pp. clviii-clxxxvii
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
British Library [Testimonial for A. R. Wallace 1879 by Hyde Clarke]
PRM field collector
Linnean Society: notebooks, correspondence, drawings