Alfred Russel Wallace

By JulianKidd

  • Alfred Russel Wallace was born

    Alfred Russel Wallace was born in Monmoouthshire, Whales.

  • Wallace became an apprentice

    Wallce became a apprentice of his brother, studying buisiness.

  • Wallace becomes self taught

    Wallace is so poor that he can't even et an education so he self-taught himself.

  • Wallace travels to Brazil

    Wallace travels to Brazil with his friend Henry Walter Bates, collecting specimins.

  • Wallace collects specimin

    Wallace has spent a total of four years in the Amazon River basin, collecting specimin for research and sale.

  • Wallace publishes two scientific articles

    Wallace published two different articles which are called "Palm Trees of the Amazon and their uses" and "Narritive of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro"
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    Wallace explores the Malay Archipelago

    Wallace travels to the Malay Archipelago for 8 years collecting specimin and research for his own sale.

  • Wallace comes up with a new idea

    Wallace propsed that "new species arise by the progression and continued divergence of varieties that outlive the parent species in the struggle for existence."

  • Wallace sends ideas about evolution to Darwin

    Wallace finally sends his ideas about evolution to Darwin.

  • Wallace and Darwin publish their papers

    Wallace and Darwin gave their papers to the Linnean Society who published it in one of their articles but didn't print Wallace's name on it.

  • Darwin finds out a coincidence

    Darwin gets Wallace's papers back and finds a coincidence because Wallace had been working on the same thing with two helpers.

  • Wallace dies

    Wallace dies on November 7th, 1913.