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| Subject: | Re: [Taxacom] Wallace's cabinet on display at AMNH | |
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| From: | George Beccaloni (G.Be...@nhm.ac.uk) | |
| Date: | Nov 30, 2009 9:27:57 am | |
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Unfortunately the collection on display at the AMNH probably never belonged to Alfred Russel Wallace - see my comments about it on my Wallace blog http://wallacefund.info/en/news_and_views
A few days ago I found a letter Wallace wrote to Henry Walter Bates in 1846 which further reinforces my conclusion and I will write a post about this for my blog soon.
Wallace's private collection of insects as described in his autobiography My Life, is in fact housed at the Natural History Museum, London - see http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/collections-at-the-museum/wallace-col lection/introduction3.jsp I initiated the project to buy it and an large collection of Wallace's manuscripts from Wallace's grandson in 2002.
George
************************************************************************ **** Dr George Beccaloni, Curator of Orthopteroidea & the A. R. Wallace insect collection, Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK. Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 5361 Fax. +44 (0)20 7942 5229
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-----Original Message----- From: taxa...@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxa...@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Moretzsohn, Fabio Sent: 30 November 2009 17:10 To: TAXACOM Subject: [Taxacom] Wallace's cabinet on display at AMNH
Probably most of you already saw this, but just in case you missed, here is a link to an article in the New York Times about a cabinet that belonged to Alfred Russel Wallace. It is now on display at the American Museum of Natural History:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24cabi.html?_r=1&ref=science
And here are photos of some of the drawers, with specimens in remarkably good condition (click on the photos to view larger photo):
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/wallace/?src=e_h <http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/wallace/?src=e_h>
Fabio
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