Illustration from The Malay Archipelago (1869), depicting the flying frog Rhacophorus nigropalmatus discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist, biologist, and geographer.
Cabinet of Curiosity: the long-lost collection of Alfred Russel Wallace (1832-1913), the British naturalist who independently proposed the “theory of natural selection.” (Charles Darwin, who was influenced by Wallace’s work, published his own theory shortly after Wallace.)
Explore Wallace’s amazing collection, drawer by drawer, at the Natural History Museum online.
