Visuals
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- London, 1844
- Queen Victoria & family
- Turner painting
- railroads
- slavery -- abolished
- Bristol riots, 1831
- women's suffrage
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- London
- gas lighting
- 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
- Henry Walter Bates (1866)
- Alexander Humboldt & Charles Darwin
- Stephen's advertisement
- mammoth, from The Vestiges of Natural HIstory of Creation [Fig. 69]
- collectors (Haeckel & Maclay, 1866)
- shipwreck (by Turner)
- London's Crystal Palace, dedicated by Qu. Victoria
- Bleak House
- London, 1846
- Wallace & family [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
Wallace, 1853 or1854 [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
- Wallace's route through the Malay archipelago
- Wallace's assistant, Ali
- Wallace's Asian specimens: bird-wing butterflies [Museum of Natural History, London]
- more specimens: beetles [Museum of Natural History, London]
- text: Wallace's 1854 letter from Singapore on collecting insects
- and more [Museum of Natural History, London]
- Asian & South American trogons
- bird-wing butterflies [courtesy of Ken Thorne]
- and more: butterflies [Museum of Natural History, London]
- lesser sulfur-crested cockatoo [Edward Lear, 1832]
- text: Wallace's 1856 letter on biogeographical discontinuities
- Wallace line
- four types of bird-wing butterflies [after Brooks, 1984, Fig. 5.1] [butterfly images courtesy of Ken Thorne]
- Wallace, c. 1862, with friend Frederick Geach [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
- Charles Darwin, 1857
- text: Darwin's letter to Lyell in 1958
- Darwin & Wallace [courtesy of George Beccaloni]
- similarities between Wallace & Darwin
- differences between Wallace & Darwin
- epilog: memorial plaque [medals from Linnaean Society, July 1, 1908]
- 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
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