ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE 1823-1913
Books and selected papers by Wallace in ZSL Library – all reference
Please make an appointment to view, most of these books as they are not on the open shelves
Australasia / by Alfred R. Wallace, London: Stanford, 1893-1894
Call Number: 6ZU
Australasia / edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace ; with ethnological appendix by A. H. Keane, London:
Stanford, 1879
Call Number: 6ZU
Borneo, Celebes, Aru / Alfred Russel Wallace, London: Penguin Books, 2007
Call Number: ZTN
(Available for loan to ZSL Fellows)
Contributions to the theory of natural selection : a series of essays / by Alfred Russel Wallace. - [2nd ed.],
London: Macmillan, 1875
Call Number: 6JF
Darwinism : an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications / by Alfred Russel
Wallace. London: Macmillan, 1889
Call Number: 6JI
Darwinism : an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications / by Alfred Russel
Wallace. London: Macmillan and Co., 1901
Call Number: JI
The dispersal of shells : an inquiry into the means of dispersal possessed by fresh-water and land Mollusca /
by Harry Wallis Kew ; with a preface by Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893
Call Number: 6S,HD
The geographical distribution of animals : with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as
elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface / by Alfred Russell Wallace. London: Macmillan, 1876
Call Number: 5HD
Island life : or the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted
solution of the problem of geological climates / by Alfred Russel Wallace. - 2nd & rev. ed. London:
Macmillan, 1892
Call Number: 6HO
Island life : or the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras including a revision and attempted
solution of the problem of geological climates / by Alfred Russel Wallace. - 3rd & rev. ed. London:
Macmillan, 1902
Call Number: 6HO
The Malay Archipelago : the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with
studies of Man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Macmillan, 1869
Call Number: 5ZTI
The Malay Archipelago : the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with
studies of Man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace. - 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1886
Call Number: 6ZTI
The Malay Archipelago : the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with
studies of Man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace. - 10th ed. London: Macmillan, 1890
Call Number: 6ZTI
Man's place in the universe : a study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality
of worlds / by Alfred R. Wallace. - 4th ed. London: Chapman & Hall, 1904
Call Number: 6ZZD
My life : a record of events and opinions / by Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Chapman & Hall, 1905
Call Number: ACWA
A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations
on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley, by Alfred R. Wallace. London: Reeve,
1853
Call Number: 4ZCPA
Natural selection and tropical nature : essays on descriptive and theoretical biology / by Alfred Russel
Wallace. - New ed. London: Macmillan, 1891
Call Number: 6JI
On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species / by Alfred Russel Wallace, Annals and
Magazine of Natural History, 1855, Vol. 16, Second Series, pp. 184-196 A58 [The `Sarawak paper’]
Freely available online reprint at http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S020.htm
On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type / by Alfred Russel Wallace,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Vol. III, 1858, p.53-62
A383
Studies scientific & social / by Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Macmillan, 1900
Call Number: 5AAY
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Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the
climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley / by Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Ward, Lock,
1889
Call Number: 6ZCPA
Tropical nature and other essays / by Alfred R. Wallace. London: Macmillan and Co., 1878
Call Number: 6AAY
The wonderful century, its successes and its failures / by Alfred Russel Wallace. - 2nd ed. London: Swan
Sonnenschein, 1898
Call Number: 6AB
The world of life : a manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose / by Alfred Russel
Wallace. London: Chapman and Hall, 1910
Call Number: 6JI
Selected Papers in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
On the Umbrella bird (Cephalopterus ornatus) communicated by Mr. S. Stevens 1850 p. 206
On the monkies of the Amazon 1852, p. 107
On some fishes of the Amazon 1853, p. 75
Extract from a letter received by Mr S. Stevens from Mr Wallace dated Batchian, October 29, 1858 referring
to a new bird of paradise, 1859, p. 129
Notes on Semioptera wallaceii, Gray, from a letter addressed to John Gould, Esq., dated Amboyna, Sept.
30, 1859. 1860, p. 61
Narrative of search after bird of paradise, 1862, p. 153
On some new and rare birds from New Guinea, 1862, p. 164
Descriptions of three new species of Pitta from the Moluccas, 1862, p. 187
Lists of birds from the Sula Islands (east of Celebes), with descriptions of new species, 1862, p. 333
Lists of birds collected in the Island of Bouru (one of the Moluccas) with descriptions of new species, 1863,
p. 18
Exhibition of a nestling of Buceros bicornis, 1863, p. 48
Remarks on a hornbill (Buceros pica), 1863, p. 85
On the identification of the Hirundo esculenta of Linnaeus, with a synopsis of the described species of
Collocalia, 1863, p. 382
A list of the birds inhabiting the Islands of Timor, Flores, and Lombock, with descriptions of new species,
1863, p. 480
On the parrots of the Malayan Region, with remarks on their habits, distribution and affinities, and
descriptions of two new species, 1864, p. 272
Lists of land-shells collected by him in the Malay Archipelago; with descriptions of new species by Mr Henry
Adams, 1865, p. 405
Description of new birds from the Malayan Archipelago, 1865, p. 474
With F. Moore: List of Lepidopterous insects collected at Takow, Formosa, by Mr R. Swinhoe, 1866, p. 355
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ZSL Archives
ZSL’s Archives contain 40 letters from Wallace to Philip Lutley Sclater, the then Secretary of the Zoological
Society. They date from 1850 to 1901. These have all been digitised and can be viewed as part of `Wallace
letters online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/wallacelettersonline
Books about Wallace – most are available for loan to ZSL Fellows
Alfred Russel Wallace: a life / Peter Raby
Call Number: ACWA
Alfred Russel Wallace, letters and reminiscences / by James Marchant
Call Number: ACWA (Reference only)
Darwin's Armada / Iain McCalman. London: Simon & Schuster, 2009
Call Number: ZA
Darwin's moon : a biography of Alfred Russel Wallace / Amabel Williams-Ellis. London: Blackie, 1966
Call Number: ACWA
An elusive Victorian : the evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace / Martin Fichman. Chicago; London: University
of Chicago Press, 2004
Author: FICHMAN, Martin
Call Number: ACWA
Evolution by natural selection / Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace ; with a foreword by Sir Gavin de
Beer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958
Call Number: JI
The forgotten naturalist : in search of Alfred Russel Wallace / John G. Wilson. Kew, Vic.: Arcadia, 2000
Call Number: ACWA
Wallace and natural selection / by H. Lewis McKinney. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press,
1972
Call Number: ACWA
Other Online links:
The first of ZSL’s Hidden gems `Narrative of search after birds of paradise’ / by Wallace, Proceedings of the
Zoological Society, 1862 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)14697998/homepage/hidden_gems.htm
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Wallace Virtual issue freely available on the Wiley website
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subject/code/000046/homepage/wallace_virtual_issue.htm?dmmsmid=739
61&dmmspid=3859513&dmmsuid=1963697
“To celebrate the life and work of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), we have put together a FREE Virtual
Issue focusing on his contribution to field of Ecology, Geography, Conservation and Evolution across a
number of the journals we publish" - (Wiley website)
February 2013, updated July and Sept 2013
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