This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.
This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John van Wyhe is a historian of science, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Biological Sciences & History, and a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. He is the founder and Director of Darwin Online and Wallace Online, Professorial Fellow of Charles Darwin University, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum (London). He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, Wallace, and the history of science around the world. Kees Rookmaaker is a biologist specialising in the history of zoology. He has worked for the past eight years on Darwin and Wallace, including work on transcriptions of notebooks and letters. He has also edited detailed surveys of all letters received by the Museum of Zoology, University in Cambridge during the 19th century. He is the author of over 200 papers and several books. He received the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History.
Inhaltsangabe
* Foreword * Introduction * England to Singapore and Malacca 4 March-16 October 1854 * Borneo 17 October 1854-23 May 1856 * Bali Lombock and Celebes 23 May-16 December 1856 * Aru and Amboyna 17 December 1856-7 January 1858 * Ternate and New Guinea 8 January-8 October 1858 * Batchian and Ternate 9 October 1858 - 9 June 1859 * Menado Amboyna and Ceram 10 June 1859 - 16 June 1860 * Waigiou Ternate Timor 17 June 1860 - 5 July 1861 * Java Sumatra and back home 6 July 1861 - 31 March 1862
* Foreword * Introduction * England to Singapore and Malacca 4 March-16 October 1854 * Borneo 17 October 1854-23 May 1856 * Bali Lombock and Celebes 23 May-16 December 1856 * Aru and Amboyna 17 December 1856-7 January 1858 * Ternate and New Guinea 8 January-8 October 1858 * Batchian and Ternate 9 October 1858 - 9 June 1859 * Menado Amboyna and Ceram 10 June 1859 - 16 June 1860 * Waigiou Ternate Timor 17 June 1860 - 5 July 1861 * Java Sumatra and back home 6 July 1861 - 31 March 1862
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