“All will acknowledge the propriety of these three great names being honoured in this Abbey Church, even though it be, to use Wordsworth’s phrase, already

  ’Filled with mementoes, satiate with its part
     Of grateful England’s overflowing dead.’

“These are three men whose lifework it was to utilise and promote scientific discovery for the preservation and betterment of the human race.”

APPENDIX

LISTS OF WALLACE’S WRITINGS

I.—­BOOKS

Date Title

1853 “Palm Trees on the Amazon” 1853 “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro.”  New
             Edition in “The Minerva Library,” 1889
1866 “The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural” 1869 “The Malay Archipelago,” 2 vols.  Tenth Edition, 1 vol., 1890 1870 “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection.”  Republished,
        with “Tropical Nature,” 1891
1874 “Miracles and Modern Spiritualism.”  Revised Edition, 1896 1876 “The Geographical Distribution of Animals,” 2 vols. 1878 “Tropical Nature and other Essays.”  Printed in 1 vol. with
        “Natural Selection,” 1891
1879 “Australasia.”  “Stanford’s Compendium of Geography and Travel.” 
           (New issue, 1893)
1880 “Island Life.”  Revised Edition, 1895 1882 “Land Nationalisation” 1885 “Bad Times” 1889 “Darwinism.” 3rd Edition, 1901 1898 “The Wonderful Century.”  New Edition, 1903 1900 “Studies, Scientific and Social” 1901 “The Wonderful Century Reader” 1901 “Vaccination a Delusion” 1903 “Man’s Place in the Universe.”  New Edition, 1904.  Cheap 1s. 
           Edition, 1912
1905 “My Life,” 2 vols.  New Edition, 1 vol., 1908 1907 “Is Mars Habitable?” 1908 “Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes,” by Richard
           Spruce.  Edited by A.R.  Wallace
1910 “The World of Life” 1913 “Social Environment and Moral Progress” 1913 “The Revolt of Democracy”

II.—­ARTICLES, PAPERS, REVIEWS, ETC.

The articles marked with an asterisk were republished in Wallace’s “Studies, Scientific and Social."

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DATE        |     PERIODICAL OR   |             SUBJECT
|        SOCIETY      |
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| 1850   | Proc.  Zool.  Soc.,   | On the Umbrella Bird
|        |  Lond.              |
| 1852   |   "      "          | Monkeys of the Amazon
| 1852-3 | Trans.  Entomol.     | On the Habits of the Butterflies
|        |  Soc.               |   of the Amazon Valley
| 1853   | Zoologist           | On the Habits of the Hesperidae
| 1853   | Proc.  Zool.  Soc.,   | On some Fishes allied to Gymnotus
|        |  Lond.              |