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Alfred Russel Wallace, 1880, London, Great Britain Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823, Llanbadoc, Wales, - 7 November 1913, Broadstone, Dorset, England) was an important British naturalist. His achievements are all the more impressive when one considers that he was self-taught. He and Charles Darwin are regarded as the people who first put the theory of evolution into words. Alfred Russell in his famous Ternate manuscript, which he sent to Charles Darwin, and Charles Darwin with his extensive books, including 'On the Origin of Species'. Alfred Russell explored the Amazon region together with Henry Walter Bates from 1848 to 1852. Unfortunately, his important collection of animals and plants from this period was lost as the ship sank on the return journey to England. Despite this terrible loss, he wrote six important articles on the nature of the Amazon region from memory and on the basis of a few saved notes, which made him famous among naturalists in England
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Feb 14, 1880
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