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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1914. 



Alfred Russel Wallace. 



The opening sentence of the NEWS for July, 1913: "In the 

 death of Lord Avebury, on May 28, there passed away the 

 youngest, but not the last, of that group of famous English 

 naturalists intimately associated with Darwin and the promul- 

 gation of his theories," is no longer true. Alfred Russel Wal- 

 lace, "the last," died" on November 7, 1913, aged 90 years and 

 ten months less one day. The length of his life is remarkable, 

 considering the attacks of disease from which he suffered both 

 in England and on his expeditions to the Amazon and the Ma- 

 lay Archipelago. 



His autobiography, published in two volumes in 1905, under 

 the title, My Life A Record of Events and Opinions, with fac- 

 simile letters, illustrations and ^portraits, renders unnecessary 

 any account of his life in this place. It is not superfluous, how- 

 ever, to recall his entomological labors and the influence which 

 he considered that the study of insects had upon his own career 

 and that of his co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection. 



At the meeting held by the Linnean Society of London on 

 July ist, 1908, to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the joint 

 communication made by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel 



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