A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund: News & Views

MORE ON ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE'S TERNATE HOUSE

gbeccaloni — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:04:45 +0000

My last post discussed attempts which had been made to locate the house which Wallace lived in on the Indonesian island of Ternate, but it has occurred to me that some readers may not know what is so special about this house; so let me explain:-

NEWS ABOUT ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE'S TERNATE HOUSE

gbeccaloni — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:20:18 +0000

Ian Cowan of Turner, ACT, Australia recently sent me an interesting unpublished essay about the search for Wallace's famous house on the Indonesian island of Ternate - the house in which Wallace was living when he posted his essay describing his independent discovery of natural selection to Charles Darwin in 1858. Ian's essay follows:-

WALLACE & DARWIN MERCHANDISE FROM THE WALLACE FUND'S NEW SHOP

gbeccaloni — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:40:28 +0000

COMMEMORATIVE WALLACE PLAQUES FOR THE WORLD!

gbeccaloni — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:13:43 +0000

SMN CONFERENCE ON ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - PODCASTS AND PHOTOS

gbeccaloni — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:25:12 +0000

On Saturday 22nd November 2008 the Scientific and Medical Network (http://www.scimednet.org/) organised a conference at the Linnean Society of London on the life and work of Alfred Russel Wallace, in order to commemorate the 150th anniversary this year of Wallace's independent discovery of evolution by natural selection (see http://www.scimednet.org/conference_pages/08_Wallace_conference.htm).

TERNATE HONORS WALLACE

gbeccaloni — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:18:47 +0000

The following very interesting article was published in The Jakarta Post today (see http://old.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20081212.H04&irec=4):

Ternate to build Wallace observatory
Andi Hajramurni and Tifa Asrianti, The Jakarta Post, Makassar, South Sulawesi

WALLACE NEWS FROM INDONESIA AND SINGAPORE

gbeccaloni — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:00:05 +0000

Recent Wallace events in Indonesia

NEW BOOK ABOUT WALLACE IS PUBLISHED

gbeccaloni — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:51:45 +0000

WALLACE ARTICLE IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

gbeccaloni — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:40:52 +0000

An excellent feature article about Wallace has just been published in the December issue of National Geographic Magazine, which is now for sale in the shops (in the USA at least). "The Man Who Wasn't Darwin" has text by the acclaimed science writer David Quammen and images by Robert Clark, a much published National Geographic photographer. The text and a few of the images are available online here:- http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/wallace/quammen-text

WALLACE IMAGES TO BE DISPLAYED IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

gbeccaloni — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:28:10 +0000