Table of Contents

Introduction
1: George Beccaloni: Homes Sweet Homes: A Biographical Tour of Wallace's Many Places of Residence
Part I In the World of Nature
2: Andrew Berry: "Ardent Beetle-Hunters": Natural History, Collecting, and the Theory of Evolution
3: Melinda Bonnie Fagan: Theory and Practice in the Field: Wallace's Work in Natural History (1844-1858)
4: George Beccaloni: Wallace's Annoted Copy of the Darwin-Wallace Paper on Natural Selection
5: James Mallet: Wallace and the Species Concept of the Early Darwinians
6: Norman A. Johnson: Direct Selection for Reproductive Isolation: The Wallace Effect and Reinforcement
7: Tim Caro, Sami Merilaita, Martin Stevens: The Colours of Animals: From Wallace to the Present Day I. Cryptic Coloration
8: Tim Caro, Geoffrey Hill, Leena Lindstrom, Michael Speed: The Colours of Animals: From Wallace to the Present Day II. Conspicuous Coloration
9: Bernard Michaux: Alfred Russel Wallace, Biogeographer
10: Keith Tinkler: Wallace and the Great Ice Age
11: Sandra Knapp: Wallace, Conservation, and Sustainable Developement
Part II In the World of Man and Worlds Beyond
12: Peter Raby: The "Finest Butterfly in the World?" : Wallace and His Literary Legacy
13: Gregory Claeys: Wallace and Owenism
14: Diane B. Paul: Wallace, Women, and Eugenics
15: David A. Stack: Out of "the Limbo of 'Unpractical Politics'": The Origins and Essence of Wallace's Advocacy of Land Nationalization
16: Martin Fichman: Alfred Russel Wallace and Anti-Vaccinationism in the Late Victorian Cultural Context, 1870-1907
17: Steven J. Dick: The Universe and Alfred Russel Wallace
18: Charles H. Smith: Wallace's Unfinished Business
19: James Moore: Wallace in Wonderland
20: Ted Benton: Wallace's Dilemmas: The Laws of Nature and the Human Spirit
21: Charles H. Smith: Wallace, Spiritualism, and Beyond: "Change" or "No Change"?

About the Author

Charles H. Smith is Professor of Library Public Information Services at Western Kentucky University. His research interests include biogeography and evolutionary theory, systems theory, bibliography, and Alfred Russel Wallace. He has published four books, nearly a hundred journal articles and reviews, and currently maintains the website The Alfred Russel Wallace Page at http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/index1.htm

His previous book publications are Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of his Shorter Writings; Biodiversity Studies: A Bibliographic Review; Alfred Russel Wallace: Writings on Evolution, 1843-1912; and Alfred Russel Wallace: Evolution of an Evolutionist.

George Beccaloni is Curator in the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and Royal Entomological Society of London, he also set up set up the A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund. His publications include numerous research articles and the following books (as co-editor): Hostplants of the Moth and Butterfly Caterpillars of the Oriental Region; Hostplants of the moth and butterfly caterpillars of America north of
Mexico; and Host-plants of the Neotropical Butterflies: A Catalogue.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Very readable'
Jim Endersby, Sunday Telegraph
`A scholarly compendium of everything one could wish to know about Wallace.'
Christopher Hudson, Daioy Mail