Posted: Apr 30, 2012 10:20 am
OK, just spotted this on of all place the SPR website. Alfred Russel Wallace remains of interest to anyone tracing the development of our ideas of Natural Selection, and Charles Smith at Western Kentucky University is compiling an archive of writings and articles on ARW. I thought perhaps some readers of the forum would have something to contribute or would like to look at the material already online.
You can read his appeal and see the links to the archive here
http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/news/contribu ... 9D-website
(The link with the SPR was that ARW was a member, but left as I recall in 1888 accusing us of being sceptics and debunkers. He was of course a committed Spiritualist, and indeed wrote a considerable amount on his ideas of Evolution and Spirit. This is probably one reason why he is so overshadowed by Darwin in popular consciousness these days)
EDIT: Here is a direct link to the Wallace webpage - http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/index1.htm but the appeal for assistance is on the SPR one. I'm assuming most people here will have knowledge of his influence on biology ideas rather than his more er, eccentric ones, so I have posted it in this subfora. It could go in History or Paranormal, but ARW's real influence was in Biology
cheers
j x
You can read his appeal and see the links to the archive here
http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/news/contribu ... 9D-website
(The link with the SPR was that ARW was a member, but left as I recall in 1888 accusing us of being sceptics and debunkers. He was of course a committed Spiritualist, and indeed wrote a considerable amount on his ideas of Evolution and Spirit. This is probably one reason why he is so overshadowed by Darwin in popular consciousness these days)
EDIT: Here is a direct link to the Wallace webpage - http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/index1.htm but the appeal for assistance is on the SPR one. I'm assuming most people here will have knowledge of his influence on biology ideas rather than his more er, eccentric ones, so I have posted it in this subfora. It could go in History or Paranormal, but ARW's real influence was in Biology
cheers
j x