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What were they thinking?

I’ve just received this photograph from my good mate Sven, showing Alfred Russel Wallace’s grave and ‘tombstone’ in Broadstone Cemetery, in Dorset.

Alfred Russell Wallace's Grave
Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave


Now I know as a member of the ‘Carry-On’ generation my sensibilities are tainted, but all the same, in the spirit of low-brow citizen scientific journalism, it’s good to see A.R. can still stand tall in this remembrance year of his more celebrated associate in evolution – Charles Darwin.

Plaque on A.R.Wallace's grave
Plaque on A.R.Wallace's grave

The structure is in fact a two metres high fossil tree trunk, and the plaque on the wide-angle photo  is for his wife Anne; presumably interred in the same grave.  This is the plaque for A.R. .