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EVERYONE will be glad that the Nestor of the evolutionist camp has been able himself to tell us the story of his life. It has been a long life of ever fourscore years, full of work, rich in achievement, starred with high ideals, and the story of it must have been pleasant to write as it is pleasant to read. It has been many-sided to a greater degree than that of most scientific investigators, for Alfred Russel Wallace has always had more than professional irons in the fire, and has always been as much interested in practising biology as in theorising about it. At the editor's request we have confined our attention, however, to what the author tells us of his work as naturalist and biologist, though it is difficult, and not altogether legitimate perhaps, to abstract off one aspect of a life in this fashion.
My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions.
By Alfred Russel Wallace. Vol. i., pp. xii + 435; vol. ii., pp. viii + 459. With facsimile letters, illustrations, and portraits. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1905.) Price 25s. net.
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T., J. My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions . Nature 73, 145–146 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073145a0
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