Alfred Russell Wallace Collection December 23, 2010

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's seminal work, a long-lost collections cabinet reportedly designed by and belonging to Alfred Russel Wallace--the influential naturalist and thinker whose independent insights and writings on evolution and natural selection spurred Darwin to finish 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' is on display in the American Museum of Natural History's Grand Gallery. The beautifully-crafted rosewood cabinet and its contents, nearly two thousand sorted and labeled beetles, moths, and plants, offer a rare glimpse into a Victorian naturalist's process.