A Rediscovery of Alfred Russel Wallace's Fern Collection from Borneo at the Cambridge University Herbarium (2014)
Cicuzza, Daniele (Author)
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 68, no. 04
Issue: 4
Pages: 403-412
Alfred Russel Wallace spent eight years in South-East Asia studying the biodiversity of the region in the course of visits to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. His collections, extensively and scrupulously acquired in the Malay Archipelago, include zoological specimens such as insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. In addition, Wallace collected botanical and ethnological material. The bulk of his zoological collection is deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, and other specimens are to be found in a variety of British museums, for example insects in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and in private collections. Wallace's collection is made up primarily of insects (of which he obtained nearly 110 000 specimens), birds (8050 specimens), mammals and other vertebrates (410 specimens), marine and land shells (7500 specimens) and plants.1 Wallace tried, with remarkable success, to collect specimens in perfect condition and with several duplicates.2 Owing to the immense number of samples, his collection has not received the attention it deserves. Moreover, even though most of his collection is in the Natural History Museum, the fact that it was sold to several buyers means that it has been difficult to study it in its entirety.3
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