Friday 12 October 2012

Extensive collection of specimens and Alfred Russel Wallace papers appear together for first time in online project

You may be interested to read this Guardian piece on Wallace Online, a web project directed by John van Wyhe, the historian behind Darwin Online. You can find the article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/27/recognition-alfred-russel-wallace-darwin.

Wallace's work on the theory of evolution through natural selection, along with major insights into biodiversity, are described in thousands of pages of books, articles, drawings and paintings, which have now been made available via Wallace Online http://wallace-online.org/.