Some Maps and Figures from the Books
of Alfred Russel Wallace
Following are selected maps and plates/figures from some of Wallace's
books (ones that I have not already reproduced at this site). More will
be added as time permits. The items have been placed in order of their
original publication.
- full-map frontispiece, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876). This map shows the famous
six-region "zoogeographical realms" classification developed
by P. L. Sclater, and adopted and promoted by Wallace.
- Palaearctic region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Ethiopian region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Oriental region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876). Shows
Wallace's Line.
- Australian region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Neotropical region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Nearctic region map, The Geographical
Distribution of Animals (S718: 1876).
- "Faunal diorama" plate
illustrating the Central Alps fauna, The Geographical Distribution
of Animals (S718: 1876). The "representative faunas"
plates in Wallace's book were created by the German artist J. B. Zwecker,
his last works.
- "Faunal diorama" plate
illustrating the New Guinea fauna, The Geographical Distribution
of Animals (S718: 1876).
- Figure 8 from Buckley's A
Short History of Natural Science (1876). Line drawing of Galileo's
telescope.
- Figure 9 from Buckley's A Short
History of Natural Science (1876). Line drawing of Kepler's
telescope.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). A photograph of Wallace's birthplace, Kensington Cottage,
Usk.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Wallace's pencil sketch of a small English village near Leicester.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). A mechanics institute building in Neath Wallace and his brother
John designed and built in the 1840s.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Wallace's house 'Old Orchard' in Broadstone, Dorset, built
1902.
- Figure in My Life (S729:
1905). Wallace's house 'The Dell' at Grays, Essex.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). A photograph of
Wallace's wife around 1895.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). A photograph of
Wallace's mother.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). Wallace's study at
'Old Orchard.'
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred
Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). Medallions
of Wallace and Darwin in Westminster Abbey.
- Figure in Marchant's Alfred Russel
Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (1916). A photograph of
Wallace's grave.
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