Lingering near the coast after their arrival, they spent a year collecting in the vicinity of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon. In 1848, after reading about the adventures of famous naturalist travelers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, they embarked for Brazil in hopes of a collection bonanza. But both were fanatical beetle collectors, and together they scoured Leicestershire for specimens.
Like Wallace, Bates had left school at an early age and lacked any formal education in natural science. While teaching school in Leicester in 1844, aged 21, he met Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892). Alfred had to stop attending school at the early age of 13, and yet, he educated himself and was eventually the author of many books on evolution and natural history. In 1835 his father, who seems always to have been improvident in his investments, was swindled out of most of his remaining property, and the Wallaces then fell on real hard times. 5) was that on his mother's side "the family were not improbably French refugees after the massacre of St. One of his typically speculative comments on this topic ( My Life, 1905, vol.
But, in fact, Alfred left home at such an early age that as an old man he said he knew few specifics about even his more recent ancestors. Supposedly, the Wallaces were descendants of the Scottish warrior chieftain William Wallace, of Braveheart fame. They had up to that time lived as an upper middle class family in Hertford just north of London.
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The Wallaces, who were not Welsh, had been forced to move to Kensington as a measure of economy after Alfred's father squandered most of his inheritance on a series of poor business decisions.
His place of birth was Kensington Cottage, which stands just across the Usk River from the town of Usk in southeastern Wales. His oddly spelled middle name was the result of a mistake at the time of registering his birth, which was never corrected. 7, 1913) is best known for developing a theory of evolution through natural selection independently of Charles Darwin.Īlfred Russel Wallace was born on January 8th, 1823, the eighth child of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Wallace. The British naturalist, biogeographer, author, humanitarian, Alfred Russel Wallace (Jan. Inundated jungle along the Rio Negro, an area explored by Wallace.
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