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More Information about Alfred Russel Wallace's Brazilian fiancée
In 2019 George Beccaloni wrote an article for this blog entitled "A new discovery: Alfred Russel Wallace's Brazilian fiancée!" [Click HERE to read it]. George suggested that Wallace's fiancée may have been the unmarried daughter of Antônio José Brandão, but he did not know her name. Now Prof. Ildeu Moreira from Brazil, has discovered who she was:
Transcripts of Alfred Russel Wallace's Four Surviving Field Notebooks From the Malay Archipelago are now Available
By George Beccaloni PhD. January 2025.
[A pdf of this article is available HERE. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12016.98568]
Notes on an Infant (1867-1868) – Herbert “Bertie” Spencer Wallace
Notes on an Infant (1867-1868) – Herbert “Bertie” Spencer Wallace
By Christine Chua
Record of the Rustic Ramblers by Violet Isabel Wallace (1869-1945)
Introduction and transcription by Christine Chua, June 2024.
(Originally published here: https://quotidiandarwin.com/kb/record-of-the-rustic-ramblers-by-violet-isabel-wallace-1869-1945/)
200th Anniversary of the Birth of Early Photographer Thomas Sims, Alfred Russel Wallace's Brother-in-Law
EXPLORING THE LIFE OF ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, THOMAS SIMS, ON THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH (26 MARCH 2024).
By Anne Woodward (March 2024)
Alfred Russel Wallace's Field Notebook 2 is available as a transcript for the first time!
The Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) is delighted to announce the release of a preliminary (still to be annotated and further edited) transcript of one of Alfred Russel Wallace’s most important notebooks – the first of his three surviving Field Notebooks which he kept in the Malay Archipelago f
Trip up Grays Peak with Alfred Russel Wallace, by Alice Eastwood.
Trip up Grays Peak with Alfred Russel Wallace, by Alice Eastwood
Commentary & transcription by Christine Chua, Jan. 2024
Finding Letters New to the Wallace Correspondence Project
By George Beccaloni, December 2023
During 2023 I located 100+ letters to and from Wallace which the Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) didn't previously know about. I am fairly sure that hundreds remain to be found in the archives of libraries and other institutions worldwide, but tracking them down will require a lot more time-consuming detective work. As an example of how we find 'new' letters, here is a brief account of work I did today which MAY have found four we don't have:
Christine Chua joins the Wallace Correspondence Project
Christine was (re-)introduced to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace when her daughter took a Darwin and Evolution module at the National University of Singapore.
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