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Alfred Russel Wallace was thirty-one years old when he arrived in Singapore on 19th April 1854. He had come to collect natural history specimens for sale in London, and to… Read More »In Search of Paradise: Wallace’s Collecting Journey in Dorey, New Guinea

Charles Darwin made three excursions into the waters of Tierra del Fuego and the Magellan Strait on HMS Beagle. In the Antarctic summer of 1832-3, the ship’s company surveyed the… Read More »Charles Darwin’s Collecting Journey in Tierra del Fuego