Wallace Online is launched!!
Updated: 2012-09-27 16:37:11
Historian of Science Dr John van Wyhe (University of Singapore), officially launched his Wallace Online website today - see ttp://wallace-online.org/ allace Online is the first complete edition of Wallace's published writings (22 books and over 900 articles). It also contains records of manuscript items compiled from several electronic catalogues, which means that these can be conveniently searched using a single interface.
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