Multimedia Gallery - Cabinet of Wonders Houses the Personal Collection of Alfred Russel Wallace

February 22, 2012

"Cabinet of Wonders" Houses the Personal Collection of Alfred Russel Wallace

"Cabinet of Wonders" Houses the Personal Collection of Alfred Russel Wallace
NSF's Lisa-Joy Zgorski tells the story of a Cabinet of Wonders, a handsome antique chest which houses the 1,700-specimen personal collection of 19th century British naturalist, field biologist and Charles Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace. Acquired inadvertently by Washington, D.C., lawyer Robert Heggestad, this Cabinet of Wonders is currently on loan to the Cullen Library at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

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