Iberodorcadion Projet
Dorcadion, Cerambycidae, Coleoptera
Friday, 14. January 2011

Alfred Russel Wallace’s insects
Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of many talents - an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. NHM http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/biographies/wallace/
Wallace was forced to leave school aged 14 to earn his living. Working as a land surveyor in the English and Welsh countryside, he started to study the living things around him.
In 1848, Wallace set off to the Amazon to collect insects and birds to study. He funded his trip by selling duplicates to museums and wealthy collectors back home.
During his 4 year trip he collected thousands of amazing species.
Collecting and sending insects to Bates Letter from Wallace to Henry Walter Bates listing and describing insect specimens and plans for further collections, dated June 1845.
Exchanging insect lists with Bates and keeping a journalLetter from Wallace to fellow entomologist Henry Walter Bates about exchanging insect lists, plans for keeping a journal, and natural history books, dated April 1846.
Herbert Wallace collecting in BrazilLetter from Herbert Edward Wallace (Wallace's brother) to his mother and sister Fanny about collecting animals to pay his debts and plans for returning home, dated August, probably 1850.
Collecting insects in SingaporeLetter from Wallace to his mother about sending beetles to his agent Mr Stevens, future travel plans and his daily routine as a collector, dated May 1854.
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