Wallace was not forced to leave school early because of financial difficulties, as frequently claimed in recent works, but finished school at the normal age. Wallace left school aged fourteen in March 1837, shortly after Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage. ![]() Here Wallace attended Hertford Free Grammar School which advertised itself as a school for the sons of gentlemen, and offered a classical education, very much like Darwin's at Shrewsbury Free Grammar School, including Latin grammar, classical geography and "some Euclid and algebra". When Wallace was about six years old the family moved to Hertford, north of London, where he lived until he was fourteen. But financial circumstances declined so the family moved from London to a village near Usk, on the Welsh borders, where Wallace was born in the large Kensington Cottage on 8 January 1823. His English father, a solicitor by training, once had property sufficient to generate a gentleman's income of £500 per annum. Unlike Darwin, Wallace came from a rather humble and ordinary background. A biographical sketch by John van WyheĪlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a great English naturalist who is primarily remembered for conceiving of a theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Links (website), The Open Directory Project (website), The Scout Report (website), GEM (website), WorldCat (OCLC database), and NetFirst (OCLC database).Alfred Russel Wallace. Index to the Internet (website), Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, Biogate (website),, MERLOT (website), The Victorian Web (website), Scott's Botanical Humanities Hub (website), Intute (website), Endeavour, WebbieWorld (website), Natural Selection (website), MedHist (website), The University of Hong Kong (website), Librarian's Center for History and New Media website), BiologyWebDirectory (website), Trove (website), The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (website), The Literary Encyclopedia (website), Humbul Online and/or print venues: New Scientist, ASEAN Review ofīiodiversity and Environmental Conservation (website),, Analysphere (website), Library Journal, Choice, Science, BBC Wildlife Magazine, American Scientist (website), History of Science Society (website), echo (George Mason Univ. Wallace Page has been reviewed, profiled or catalogued in the following With a list of general subjects) or (4) send me an email at. Subject Index' (which associates Wallace's published writings Names Index' (which lists the names of people and corporateĮntities found in Wallace's published writings) (3) the 'General Or another connected with Wallace (2) the 'Personal Thesaurus' (which lists places, terms, and titles in one way Searchable names and terms: (1) the 'Wallace Having Trouble Finding Things? If so, try using the following three lists as a means of coming up with ![]() ![]() Search Site: By Wallace / On Wallace / Entire ![]() Many Miles Away (a novel of mine with some Wallacean themes published October 2020) The Real Alfred Russel Wallace: Essays on an Outside-the-Box Thinker (English text of a book of mine published in French in 2013)Īlfred Russel Wallace Notes (a peer-reviewed and irregularly published note series edited by Charles H. New!: Public Question and Reply Feature: Pose a Wallace-related question to and I'll make a public reply (if it's a good question!) on the linked-to page. To expect the world to receiveĪ new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to lookįor one of those miracles which do not occur." (fromĪn interview of Wallace published posthumously in 1913) Is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and everyįresh truth is received unwillingly. "Whenever we depart from the great principles of truth and honesty, of equal freedom and justice to all men whether in our relations with other states, or in our dealings with our fellow-men, the evil that we do surely comes back to us, and the suffering and poverty and crime of which we are the direct or indirect causes, help to impoverish ourselves." (from Bad Times, 1885) Information on one of the most fascinating figures in the history (1823-1913)! The links to the left connect you to various kinds of Welcome to Version Two of The Alfred Russel Wallace Page, a website dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the English naturalist, evolutionist, and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace
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