Alfred Russel Wallace & the Origin of New Species
    by Ami Friedman, with contributions from Douglas Allchin
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Visuals

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  1. London, 1844
  2. Queen Victoria & family
  3. Turner painting
  4. railroads
  5. slavery -- abolished
  6. Bristol riots, 1831
  7. women's suffrage
  8. Martin Chuzzlewit
  9. London
  10. gas lighting

  11. Alfred Russel Wallace, age 24 [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
    text: Wallace's recollection on being introduced to plants
    text: Wallace's recollection on collecting beetles
  12. Henry Walter Bates (1866)
  13. Alexander Humboldt & Charles Darwin
  14. Stephen's advertisement
  15. mammoth, from The Vestiges of Natural HIstory of Creation [Fig. 69]
  16. collectors (Haeckel & Maclay, 1866)
  17. shipwreck (by Turner)

  18. London's Crystal Palace, dedicated by Qu. Victoria
  19. Bleak House
  20. London, 1846
  21. Wallace & family [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
    Wallace, 1853 or1854 [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
  22. Wallace's route through the Malay archipelago
  23. Wallace's assistant, Ali
  24. Wallace's Asian specimens: bird-wing butterflies [Museum of Natural History, London]
  25. more specimens: beetles [Museum of Natural History, London]
    text: Wallace's 1854 letter from Singapore on collecting insects
  26. and more [Museum of Natural History, London]
  27. Asian & South American trogons
  28. bird-wing butterflies [courtesy of Ken Thorne]
  29. and more: butterflies [Museum of Natural History, London]
  30. lesser sulfur-crested cockatoo [Edward Lear, 1832]
    text: Wallace's 1856 letter on biogeographical discontinuities
  31. Wallace line
  32. four types of bird-wing butterflies [after Brooks, 1984, Fig. 5.1] [butterfly images courtesy of Ken Thorne]
  33. Wallace, c. 1862, with friend Frederick Geach [courtesy of George Beccaloni]

  34. Charles Darwin, 1857
    text: Darwin's letter to Lyell in 1958
  35. Darwin & Wallace [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
  36. similarities between Wallace & Darwin
  37. differences between Wallace & Darwin
  38. epilog: memorial plaque [medals from Linnaean Society, July 1, 1908]
  39. NOS features
    Credits


Supplemental Activities: Reading Wallace's Letters


Websites

Victorian Web
Provides information and images related to the Victorian Era
The Alfred Russel Wallace Website
Provides information, images, blogs, podcasts, and more related to Alfred Russel Wallace
The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
Provides information, bibliography, texts of writings, and more related to Wallace
Natural History Museum of London, Wallace Collection
Access to images of Wallace's specimens, photos, educational activities & more
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
Original Papers, illustrations, and manuscripts of Darwin and Wallace's works