Daily Archives: July 5, 2014

Alfred Russel Wallace On Dangerous Fruit

by | July 5, 2014

I’m slowly reading my way through The Malay Archipelago, by Charles Darwin’s contemporary and colleague Alfred Russel Wallace. I’ll probably have more to say later about this rather magnificent piece of scientific Victoriana, but for the moment I thought it would be fun to share a tangential musing of Wallace’s on the subject of tropical… Read more »