[PDR] Alfred Russel Wallace: a Heretic’s Heretic

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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE: A HERETIC’S HERETIC

On the centenary of his death, Michael A. Flannery looks back at how 
Alfred Russel Wallace's particular idea of evolution, which radically 
reintroduced notions of purpose and design, still speaks to us in a 
post-Darwin world where problems of the human mind, of sentience, and of 
the origin of life remain as intractable as ever.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/30/alfred-russel-wallace-a-heretics-heretic/>

Halloween Treats (and some Tricks)

JAP HERRON: A NOVEL WRITTEN FROM THE OUIJA BOARD (1917)

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    Jap Herron, the novel written, supposedly, by a deceased Mark Twain
    from beyond the grave, dictated via the medium of a Ouija board.

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    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/29/jap-herron-a-novel-written-from-the-ouija-board-1917/>

    THE SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS OF WILLIAM HOPE

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    |These photographs of "spirits" are taken from an album of
    photographs unearthed in a lancashire second-hand and antiquarian
    bookshop by one of the museum's curators. they were taken by a
    controversial medium called William Hope.
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        <http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/08/the-spirit-photographs-of-william-hope/>

    DECAYED DAGUERROTYPES

    dag-thumb|A selection of images from the Library of Congress found
    via the always excellent Ptak Science Books blog. The daguerreotype,
    invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1837, was the first
    commercially successful photographic process and was popular
    throughout the mid-19th century. |Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/08/decayed-daguerreotypes/>

    DENNISON'S BOGIE BOOK FOR HALLOWEEN (1920)

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    Decoration, costume and party suggestions from 1920 for the night of
    Halloween, that one time (according to the book) “of all the year
    when an opportunity is supposed to be given for looking into the
    future and having one’s fate settled for the coming twelve months”.
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    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/30/dennisons-bogie-book-for-halloween-1920/>

    HALLOWEEN POSTCARDS

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    Halloween postcards from the New York Public Library picture
    postcard collection.

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    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/29/halloween-postcards/>

    THE CALAVERAS OF JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA

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    The art of José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican illustrator known for
    his satirical and politically acute calaveras - a Spanish word for
    ‘skulls’ - which would, after Posada’s death, become closely
    associated with the mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, the Day of
    the Dead. ||Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/11/02/the-calaveras-of-jose-guadalupe-posada/>

New Collection Items

    TOMMY BURNS KNOCKING OUT BILL SQUIRES (1907)

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    A Miles Brothers film of the legendary heavyweight prize boxing
    match between Bill Squires and Tommy Burns, played out at Ocean
    View, California, on July 4th 1907. Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/24/tommy-burns-knocking-out-bill-squires-1907/>

    THE SKETCHBOOKS OF JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

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Selections from “Album 11″, a sketchbook belonging to the French 
neoclassical painter and revolutionary Jacques-Louis David. The sketches 
are from his student years in Rome in the 1770s, a time in which he 
became obsessed with the ancient and Renaissance art to be found in the 
city. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/22/the-sketchbooks-of-jaques-louis-david/>

SAMUEL JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1785)
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Volume 1 of the 6th edition of Samuel Johnson’s epic achievement A 
Dictionary of the English Language, published a year after his death in 
1785. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/15/samuel-johnsons-dictionary-of-the-english-language-1785/>

AN ACCOUNT OF  A CHINESE CABINET (1753)

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/23/an-account-of-a-chinese-cabinet-1753/>

An account by Sir Hans Sloane detailing the contents of a Chinese 
cabinet (which includes a “Sea Horse Tooth”) procured by a Mr Buckley 
during travels in China. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/23/an-account-of-a-chinese-cabinet-1753/>

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