Celebrating Wallace

Authors

  • Mª Victoria Ruiz Pérez Spain

Keywords:

Wallace, 100 years

Abstract

Encounters in Biology did not want to remain oblivious to a singular anniversary for the history of Biology: in 2013, 100 years have passed since the death of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). To celebrate this centenary, Encounters in Biology wants to echo the WALLACE 100 initiative, an informal international association of organizations with projects designed to celebrate this centenary. The logo of this association shows three males of the butterfly Ornithoptera croesus, the most famous of the 113 species and subspecies of butterflies from Southeast Asia that Wallace named. The orange color of the logo is similar to that of the butterfly itself. Wallace captured the first male specimen of this beautiful butterfly in 1859 on the Indonesian island of Batchian. The British Museum of Natural History hosts the Wallace 100 blog on its NaturePlus web space. During the Darwin Year, Encounters in Biology also wanted to pay a modest tribute to Wallace and did so by publishing a biography written by Mª Victoria Ruiz Pérez, then a predoctoral fellow (Encounters in Biology 2 (125): 49-51, 2009). Now a doctor, Mª Victoria has been happy to review and “update” that biography. Below is this revamped version.

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Published

2013-10-20

How to Cite

Ruiz Pérez, M. V. (2013). Celebrating Wallace . Encuentros En La Biología, 6(144), 71–74. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18258