My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide

Alfred Russel Wallace

G. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER II: 19
• CHAPTER III: 30
• CHAPTER IV: 46
• CHAPTER V: 63
• CHAPTER VI: 79
• CHAPTER VII: 106
• CHAPTER VIII: 118
• KINGTON AND RADNORSHIRE: 140
• CHAPTER XI: 160
• CHAPTER XII: 169
• CHAPTER XIII: 178
• CHAPTER XIV: 199
• CHAPTER XV: 223
• CHAPTER XVI: 229
• CHAPTER XVII: 241
• CHAPTER XVIII: 263
• CHAPTER XIX: 289
• CHAPTER XX: 302
• CHAPTER XXI: 337
• CELEBES THE MOLUCCAS NEW GUINEA TIMOR JAVA: 355
• CHAPTER XXIII: 385
• CHAPTER XXIV: 409

About the author

Born in Usk, Wales, Alfred Wallace had a very limited education, yet he became a noted naturalist and independently developed the theory of evolution, which is most commonly associated with the name of Charles Darwin. Wallace's formal education was completed with his graduation from grammar school at the age of 14. Having developed an interest in natural history, he avidly pursued this study during his years as a teacher in Leicester, England. In 1848 Wallace went to Brazil to study animals of the Amazon. Returning to England in 1853, he departed a year later on an expedition to the East Indies, where he remained for nine years. It was during this time that he developed his theory of evolution, essentially the same theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest that Darwin had developed and had been painstakingly perfecting before making his views known. Wallace sent his paper setting forth his theory to Darwin, who recognized that his and Wallace's theories were the same. The theory was presented in a joint paper before the Linnaean Society, an organization of scientists, in London in 1858. With Wallace's agreement, Darwin was given the major credit for developing the theory because of the wide-ranging body of evidence that he had amassed in support of it.

Bibliographic information

• Pealkiri: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide; Bell's Indian and colonial library; My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace
• Autor: Alfred Russel Wallace
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: G. Bell & Sons, 1905
• Original from: California Ülikool
• Digitized: 10 mai 2018
• ISBN: 059800596X, 9780598005960
• Length: 447 pages