Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago (Hardback or Cased Book)
Van Wyhe, John
ISBN 10: 0199683999 ISBN 13: 9780199683994
Published by Oxford University Press (UK) 11/1/2013, 2013
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780199683994
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The letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin
About the Author:
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 bibliography and 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.
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Title: Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) 11/1/2013
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
Condition: New
Book Type: Book