Explore this amazing collection of letters from one of the world's most significant scientists, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913).
Wallace's fascinating letters and manuscripts are brought together in one place for the first time by the Wallace Correspondence Project, in this digital archive Wallace Letters Online.
Browse the correspondence of the "father of evolutionary biogeography" and co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection.
Alfred Russel Wallace's letters contain:
Wallace's correspondents read like a "Who's Who" of 19th century science and society, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Gertrude Jekyll, to name just a few.
Over 4,300 letters written or received by Alfred Russel Wallace survive. These were scattered across the collections of about 180 institutions and private individuals worldwide before being brought together in Wallace Letters Online.
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We thank the many other people and organisations who have made valuable contributions to this project.
AcknowledgementsThis digital archive contains scans and transcripts of letters written and received by Wallace as well as a selection of other Wallace manuscripts.
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