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Wallace (ALFRED RUSSELL an English)

ALFRED RUSSELL, an English naturalist; born in Usk, Monmouthshire, England, Jan. 8, 1823; was educated at Hertford grammer school.

He spent many years in traveling, especially in South America and the Asiatic Islands. His observation of animal life early led him on the track of natural selection, and before Darwin gave his famous work to the world he had published "Speculations on the Origin of Species." Wallace differed from Darwin on the subject of the intellectual, moral, spiritual nature of man, and claimed to be at once a Darwinian and an anti-materialist. He was president of the Land Nationalization Society and a member of various scientific bodies.

The Royal Society of London awarded him the royal medal in 1868, and the Geographical Society of Paris the gold medal in 1870. He wrote: "Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro"; "The Malay Archipelago"; "Tropical Nature"; WALLACE "Geographical Distribution of Animals"; "Natural Selection" (1870); "Miracles and Modern Spiritualism" (1874); "Australasia" (1879); "Island Life" ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE (1880); "Land Nationalization" (1882); "Bad Times" (1885); "Darwinism' (1889); (1898); and many scientific and popular "The Wonderful Century" papers. He died in 1913.