Editing Alfred Russel Wallace (section)

=== Memorials ===
[[Mount Wallace (Fresno and Inyo counties, California)|Mount Wallace]] in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range was named in his honour in 1895.<ref>Browning, Peter, ''Place Names of the Sierra Nevada From Abbot to Zumwalt'', 1986, Wilderness Press, {{ISBN|9780899970479}}.</ref> In 1928, a [[House system|house]] at Richard Hale School (then called Hertford Grammar School, where he had been a pupil) was named after Wallace.<ref name="fun facts">{{cite web|title=Just for Fun |url=http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/just.htm |publisher=The Alfred Russel Wallace Page |access-date=30 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="other things"/> The Alfred Russel Wallace building is a prominent feature of the Glyntaff campus at the [[University of South Wales]], by [[Pontypridd]], with several teaching spaces and laboratories for science courses. The [[Wallace Building, Swansea|Natural Sciences Building]] at Swansea University and lecture theatre at Cardiff University are named after him,<ref name="other things">{{cite web |title=Other things named after Wallace |url=http://wallacefund.info/other-things-named-after-wallace |publisher=The Alfred Russel Wallace Website |access-date=30 November 2015 |archive-date=27 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627165434/http://wallacefund.info/other-things-named-after-wallace |url-status=dead }}</ref> as are [[impact crater]]s on Mars and the [[Moon]].<ref name="fun facts"/> In 1986, the [[Royal Entomological Society]] mounted a year-long expedition to the [[Dumoga-Bone National Park]] in North Sulawesi named Project Wallace.<ref name="other things"/> A group of Indonesian islands is known as the [[Wallacea]] biogeographical region in his honour, and Operation Wallacea, named after the region, awards "Alfred Russel Wallace Grants" to undergraduate ecology students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alfred Russel Wallace Grants |url=http://opwall.com/about-us/alfred-russel-wallace-grants/ |publisher=Operation Wallacea |access-date=22 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123092245/http://opwall.com/about-us/alfred-russel-wallace-grants/ |archive-date=23 November 2015}}</ref> Several hundred species of plants and animals, both living and fossil, have been named after Wallace,<ref>{{cite web |last=Beccaloni |first=H. |date=October 2017 |title=Plants and animals named after Wallace |url=http://wallacefund.info/plants-and-animals-named-after-wallace |publisher=The Alfred Russel Wallace Website |access-date=26 October 2017 |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131013833/http://wallacefund.info/plants-and-animals-named-after-wallace |url-status=dead }}</ref> such as the gecko ''[[Cyrtodactylus wallacei]]'',<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Wallace", p. 279).</ref> and the freshwater stingray ''[[Potamotrygon]] wallacei''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Carvalho, M.R.d. |author2=Rosa, R.S.|author3=Araújo, M.L.G. |year=2016 |title=A new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) from the Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil: the smallest species of Potamotrygon |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4107 |issue=4 |pages=566–586 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4107.4.5 |pmid=27394840 }}</ref> More recently, several new species have been named during the bicentenary year of Wallace's birth, including a large [[spider]] from [[Peru]], ''Linothele wallacei'' Sherwood ''et al''., 2023<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Sherwood, D. |author2=Drolshagen, B. |author3=Osorio, L. V. |author4=Benavides, L. |author5=Seiter, M. |year=2023 |title=An inordinate fondness for spinnerets: on some spiders of the genera Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850 and Linothele Karsch, 1879 with new species, records, and notes on types (Araneae: Dipluridae) |journal=ZooNova |volume=29 |pages=1–22 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375863887}}</ref> and a [[South Africa]]n [[weevil]], ''Nama wallacei'' Meregalli & Borovec, 2023.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Meregalli, M. |author2=Borovec, R. |year=2023 |title=The genus Nama, with the description of 14 new species (Curculionidae, Entiminae, Namaini) |journal=Diversity |volume=15  |issue=8 |pages=944|doi=10.3390/d15080944 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2023Diver..15..944M }}</ref>