Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)

Article: PEIXES DO RIO NEGRO. FISHES OF THE RIO NEGRO. ALFRED ...
Copeia;  February 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ...PEIXES DO RIO NEGRO. FISHES OF THE RIO NEGRO. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (1850-1852). Monica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo ... cloth).-The book is a biographical treatment of Alfred Russel Wallace's unpublished journals and associated illustrations ...

Article: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... mathematician Robert Recorde, the statistician Richard Price, the crystallographer WH Miller, the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, the astronomer Isaac Roberts, the meteorologist David Brunt, the orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones and the ...

Article: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): English ...
Geographical;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...What was his background? Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8 January 1823 in the village of Usk, Monmouthshire (now Gwent), the eighth of nine children. He became interested ...

Article: evolutionist; Alfred Russel Wallace, largely ...
The Record (Kitchener, Ontario);  July 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Excellent. This is the actual spot,'' he yells. It is on this site, in a long-gone thatched hut, that Alfred Russel Wallace is believed to have spent weeks in 1855 writing a seminal paper on the theory of evolution. Yet he is largely ...

Article: A brothers' reunion: evolution's champion Alfred ...
California History;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... their last meeting in their native England, their lives had taken extraordinarily different paths. In 1848, Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed from London to the Amazon to collect rare species of plants and animals. The following year, his ...

Article: Book review: The natural selection of scientists Tuesday Book ...
The Independent - London;  June 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... picture into which those contributions fit. All of this is amply born out by Peter Raby's splendid biography of Alfred Russel Wallace, the man who independently hit upon the idea of natural selection, and thereby prompted Charles Darwin to go ...

Article: On.the.origins of a theory: this year marks the 150th anniversary ...
Geographical;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... and bats roamed freely. We were disappointed, because this was where, in 1855, the young British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace made one of the most important intellectual breakthroughs in the history of science--the formulation of the ...