| Authorised form of name | Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823 - 1913) |
| Dates | 1823 - 1913 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Usk, Monmouthshire |
| Date of birth | 08 January 1823 |
| Place of death | Broadstone, Dorset |
| Date of death | 07/11/1913 |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Activity | Education:
LLD; DCL
Career:
English master, Collegiate School, Leicester; travelled to the Amazon with Henry Walter Bates (FRS 1881) (1848-1852)
Honours:
OM 1910
Memberships:
FLS; FZS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/06/1893 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1890; Royal Medal 1868; Copley 1908 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1923-1924 vol 95 pp i-xxxv, plate, signed by E B P
References:
H J Habakkuk, 'Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (1766-1834)' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 99-108
C F A Pantin, 'Alfred Russel Wallace, FRS, and His Essays of 1858 and 1855' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 67-84, plate
A Cohen, 'Roland Trimen and the merope harem' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 205-218
T Quinn, 'From Darwin and Wallace to the discovery of Invar' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 121-123
M Bulmer, 'The theory of natural selection of Alfred Russel Wallace FRS' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 125-136
Charles H Smit, 'Wallace, Darwin and Ternate 1858' in NR 2014, vol 68, no. 2, pp 165-170
D Cicuzza 'A rediscovery of Alfred Russel Wallace's fern collection from Borneo at the Cambridge University Herbarium' in NR 2014, vol 68, no 4, pp 403-412
Costa, James T. (2023) 'Radical by nature: the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace' (Princeton U.P.) |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/19767134 |
| Royal Society code | NA6632 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1893/15 | Wallace, Alfred Russel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/4/984 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Russel Wallace | 13 December 1890 |
| NLB/4/833 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Alfred Russel Wallace | 6 November 1890 |
| NLB/4/942 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society | 4 December 1890 |
| NLB/4/937 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Russel Wallace | 2 December 1890 |
| NLB/4/943 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Alfred Russel Wallace, Parkstone, Dorset | 4 December 1890 |
| NLB/6/619 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company | 13 June 1892 |
| NLB/6/620 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Macmillan & Company | 13 June 1892 |
| NLB/6/835 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 July 1892 |
| NLB/24/583 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Russell Wallace, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 June 1902 |
| NLB/34/237 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Wallace, Fellow of the Royal Society, Broadstone, Wimborne | 14 December 1906 |
| NLB/34/571 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Alfred Russell Wallace, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 February 1907 |
| NLB/37/728 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to The Secretaries The Linnean Society | 5 May 1908 |
| NLB/39/185 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Alfred] R [Russel] Wallace, OM, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 December 1908 |
| NLB/38/739 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr Alfred Russel Wallace, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 October 1908 |
| NLB/65/325 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, FRS | 12 October 1923 |
| NLB/65/435 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, FRS | 31 October 1923 |
| NLB/6/588 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 June 1892 |
| NLB/7/961 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster | 3 June 1893 |
| MC/8/265 | Letter from Alfred R [Russel] Wallace, 9 St Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park, to W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society | 8 November 1868 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| MC/23/479 | Letter from Alfred [Russel] Wallace, Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society | 31 October 1908 |
| MC/23/480 | Letter from Alfred [Russel] Wallace, Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, to The [Assistant Secretary] of the Royal Society | 9 December 1908 |
| MC/28/215 | Letter from [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, Wykeham House, Oxford, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 5 December 1913 |
| MC/30/125 | Letter from James Marchant, 42 Great Russell Street, W.C, to The Secretary, The Royal Soicety, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W | 29 June 1915 |
| MC/22 | Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1907 |
| NLB/34/614 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Russel Wallace, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 February 1907 |
| MC/22/493 | Letter from Alfred [Russel] Wallace, Broadstone, Wimborne, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 11 February 1907 |
| MC/37/109 | Letter from [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, Wykeham House, Oxford, to [William Bate] Hardy, [Royal Society] | 8 October 1923 |
| MC/37/111 | Letter from [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, Wykeham House, Oxford, to [William Bate] Hardy, [Royal Society] | 6 November 1923 |