After spending a dozen years in the tropics and making his reputation as the greatest field biologist of the nineteenth century, Alfred Russel Wallace later gave this name to the house where he retired:
1. Darwinia, to honor his co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection (though his wife Annie had suggested Wallacea).
2. Umbraculum, from the Latin word for a place of quiet retirement.
3. Tulgey Wood, after a nonsense verse by Lewis Carroll.
4. Birdwing, for his discovery of the...
Published on September 19, 2010 23:34