Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Some Maps and Figures By or Related to Alfred Russel Wallace
Following are selected maps and plates/figures both from some of
Wallace's books (ones that I have not already reproduced at this site),
or concerning subjects related to Wallace. More will be added as time
permits. The items have been placed in order of their original publication.
- Frontispiece portrait of Emma
Hardinge (Britten), in high resolution, from her Modern American Spiritualism (1870).
- Full-map frontispiece, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876). This map shows the famous
six-region "zoogeographical realms" classification developed
by P. L. Sclater, and adopted and promoted by Wallace.
- Palaearctic region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Ethiopian region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Oriental region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876). Shows
Wallace's Line.
- Australian region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Neotropical region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Nearctic region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- "Faunal diorama" plate
illustrating the Central Alps fauna, The Geographical Distribution
of Animals (S718: 1876). The "representative faunas"
plates in Wallace's book were created by the German artist J. B. Zwecker,
his last works.
- "Faunal diorama" plate
illustrating the New Guinea fauna, The Geographical Distribution
of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Figure 8 from Buckley's A
Short History of Natural Science (1876). Line drawing of Galileo's
telescope.
- Figure 9 from Buckley's A Short
History of Natural Science (1876). Line drawing of Kepler's
telescope.
- Photo portrait of Wallace
from 1887.
- Woodcut portrait of Wallace, in high resolution,
published in 1891.
- Photo portrait of Wallace, in high resolution, published in 1905.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). A photograph of Wallace's birthplace, Kensington Cottage,
Usk.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Wallace's pencil sketch of a small English village near Leicester.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). A mechanics institute building in Neath Wallace and his brother
John designed and built in the 1840s.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Wallace's house 'Old Orchard' in Broadstone, Dorset, built
1902.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Wallace's house 'The Dell' at Grays, Essex.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Fold-out map, in high resolution, showing Wallace's travel routes in the Malay Archipelago.
- Portrait of Robert Owen, in high resolution, in Frank Podmore's Robert Owen, A Biography (1906).
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). A photograph of
Wallace's wife around 1895.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). A photograph of
Wallace's mother.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). Wallace's study at
'Old Orchard.'
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred
Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). Medallions
of Wallace and Darwin in Westminster Abbey.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). A photograph of
Wallace's grave.
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