Like almost everyone else in Telford I’d heard the legend, of course, about the missing photograph of Darwin and Wallace, the two co-discoverers of Evolution by means of Natural Selection, standing side-by-side. Together. In the same frame.
The incorrigible sceptic in me had always dismissed the tale as a myth, just wishful thinking. It had never happened. But wouldn’t it be fantastic if it had?
And then last week, whilst browsing in the History of Science section in a Charity shop in Wellington, (Shropshire not Somerset, or New Zealand obviously as I really would have taken the wrong bus if I were in the latter and then been very late home for tea) that I chanced upon a collection of Thomas Henry Huxley’s essays entitled Darwiniana. I picked it up to examine it, as you do, and to my surprise not only was it modestly priced at £1 but this photo dropped out
The legendary missing photograph: Darwin (R) and Wallace (L)
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