Alfred Russel Wallace, 1907: Is Mars habitable?

[rerevisionist]

1. Thanks for the A R Wallace site references etc!

I'm grateful for your noting the works of Wallace are online. I checked, being naturally sceptical, and indeed they all seem to be there, and free, in PDF format. No need even to sign in.

Many people still don't realise Wallace was probably the inventor of the theory of evolution, but, being on the other side of the globe at the time, Darwin rigged up a meeting to pretend he had the idea, too. (See Brackman's book - with a hopelessly poor title imho - 'A Curious Arrangement'.

This of course suggests a re-examination of his works is overdue & in fact there's a lot of interesting material, including his autobiography, his scepticism about vaccination against smallpox, his natural history work. He also wrote on land nationalisation and other social issues. He seemed however to believe in spiritualism, though I haven't read him to find out if he suspended science to do this.