Author:Alfred Russel Wallace

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Alfred Russel Wallace
(1823–1913)

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British naturalist, co-founder of the theory of natural selection, and founder of the field of biogeography

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "A. R. W."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "A. R. W."

Works

Books

Theory of Natural Selection
Palm trees of the Amazon, and their uses (1853) (external scan)
Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro - 1853, revised Ed. 1889 (transcription project) (external scan)
The Malay Archipelago (1869) (transcription project)
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - 1870 (external scan)
The action of natural selection on man (1871) (external scan)
The Geographical Distribution of Animals. London: MacMillan & Co. 1876. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) (vol 2)
Tropical Life and Other Essays - 1878 (external scan)
Island Life - 1881
Land Nationalisation: Its Necessity and its Aims (1882)
Australasia (1883) (external scan)
Bad times: an essay on the present depression of trade (1885) (external scan)
Darwinism - 1889
Vaccination a Delusion (1891) (transcription project)
Natural selection and tropical nature; essays on descriptive and theoretical biology (1891) (external scan)
The Wonderful Century (1898) (external scan)
Studies scientific & social (1900) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
The Progress of the century (1901) (external scan)
Man's place in the universe; a study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality of worlds (1903) (external scan)
My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions - 1905 (external scan)
Land nationalisation (1906) (external scan)
The world of life (1911) (external scan)
Social environment and moral progress (1913) (external scan)
The Revolt of Democracy (1913) (external scan)
Alfred Russel Wallace (1916) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Papers

On the Monkeys of the Amazon - 1853 Speculates on the effect of rivers and other geographical barriers on the distribution of closely allied species.
On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species - 1855 Wallace's thoughts on the geographic distribution of closely allied species and the implications for evolution.
On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (1858) paper on Natural Selection with Charles Darwin
On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago - 1859 Contains first description of Wallace Line.
Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton's Paper on the Bee's Cell, And on the Origin of Species - 1863 Wallace's defence of the Origin on the topic of evolution of the hexagonal bee cell.
The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of "Natural Selection" - read before the Anthropological Society, March 1st, 1864
Caterpillars and Birds - 1867 Wallace's request for data on warning colouration.
English and American Flowers - 1891 Contains speculation on how glaciation may have affected distribution of mountain flora in North America and Eurasia.
Is Mars habitable?, 1907

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

Articles

"Absence of White Color in Animals" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1700) (1877)
"New Guinea" in Littell's Living Age, 148 (1909) (1881)

Contribution to EB1911

"Acclimatization," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Wallace

"Sketch of Alfred Russel Wallace" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (June 1877)
"Wallace, Alfred Russell, F.R.S., LL.D., etc.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Wallace, Alfred Russel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913" in Popular Science Monthly, 83 (December 1913)
"Wallace, Alfred Russel," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Wallace, Alfred Russel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
review of Wallace 1876 in: James Edmund Harting, ed. (1877). "The Geographical Distribution of Animals. By Alfred Russel Wallace. Two Vols., 8vo.London: Macmillan & Co. 1876". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 1 (issue 2, February—section 'Notices of New Books'): 68–71.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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