Alfred Russel Wallace - Awards, Honours, and Memorials

Awards, Honours, and Memorials

• Among the many awards presented to Wallace were the Darwin Medal (1890), the Order of Merit (1908), the Royal Society's Royal Medal (1868) and Copley Medal (1908), the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal (1892) as well as the Linnean Society's Gold Medal (1892) and their Darwin–Wallace Medal (1908).
• Elected head of the anthropology section of the British Association in 1866.
• Elected president of the Entomological Society of London in 1870.
• Elected head of the biology section of the British Association in 1876.
• Awarded a civil pension of £200 a year, in large part due to lobbying by Darwin and Huxley, by British government in 1881.
• Elected to the Royal Society in 1893.
• Asked to chair the International Congress of Spiritualists (which was meeting in London) in 1898.
• In 1928, a house at Richard Hale School (at the time called Hertford Grammar School) was named after Wallace. Wallace attended Richard Hale as a student from 1828 to 1836.
• On 1 November 1915, a medallion with his name on it was placed in Westminster Abbey.
• He is also honoured by having craters on Mars and the Moon named after him.
• A centre for biodiversity research in Sarawak named in his memory was proposed in 2005.
• The Geography and Biology building at Swansea University is named after Wallace.
• A large lecture theatre at Cardiff University (Main Building 0.13) is named after Wallace.
• Operation Wallacea, that operates scientific conservation expeditions worldwide, and the Operation Wallacea Trust, which creates sustainable community conservation programmes, are named after Wallace