Wallace's lost chest, circa 1848
Wallace's lost chest, circa 1848
By Edyta Zielinska Wallace’s lost chest, circa 1848 When Bill Wallace, great grandson of famed naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, was growing up, he would put on his great grandfather’s hat and finger a cabinet that his family considered “a bit of a shrine to Wallace,” Bill recalls. By that time, the family had sold most of Wallace’s collections, but had kept the cabinet—one of two that housed the naturalist’s specimens.