[Taxacom] Wallace's cabinet on display at AMNH

[George Beccaloni]

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

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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
 
My Web CV:- 
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/staff-directory/entomology/cv-353
4.html
World catalogue of cockroaches:-
http://blattodea.speciesfile.org/HomePage.aspx
Blattodea Culture Group (cockroach study group):-
http://blattodea-culture-group.org/
The Alfred Russel Wallace Memorial Fund:- http://wallacefund.info/
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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at 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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Fabio Moretzsohn, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi 6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5869, Corpus Christi,
TX 78412-5869
Phone: (361) 825-3230; Fax: (361) 825-2050

fabio.moretzsohn [at] tamucc.edu

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