Editing Alfred Russel Wallace (section)

=== Death ===
[[File:Restored grave of AR Wallace.jpg|thumb|upright|Wallace's grave in [[Broadstone, Dorset|Broadstone]] Cemetery, Dorset, restored by the A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund in 2000. It features a [[Petrified wood|fossil tree trunk]] 7 feet (2.1 m) tall from [[Isle of Portland|Portland]], mounted on a block of [[Purbeck limestone]].|alt=photograph of Wallace's grave]]

On 7 November 1913, Wallace died at home, aged 90, in the country house he called Old Orchard, which he had built a decade earlier.{{sfn|Slotten|2004|p=490}} His death was widely reported in the press. ''[[The New York Times]]'' called him "the last of the giants [belonging] to that wonderful group of intellectuals composed of Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, Lyell, Owen, and other scientists, whose daring investigations revolutionized and evolutionized the thought of the century".<ref>{{cite news |author=Anon |title=We Are Guarded by Spirits, Declares Dr. A. R. Wallace |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 October 1911 |url=https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S748A.htm }}</ref> Another commentator in the same edition said: "No apology need be made for the few literary or scientific follies of the author of that great book on the 'Malay Archipelago'." ([https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2530 Vol.1], [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2539 Vol.2]){{sfn|Slotten|2004|p=491}}

Some of Wallace's friends suggested that he be buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], but his wife followed his wishes and had him buried in the small cemetery at [[Broadstone, Dorset]].{{sfn|Slotten|2004|p=490}} Several prominent British scientists formed a committee to have a medallion of Wallace placed in Westminster Abbey near where Darwin had been buried. The medallion was unveiled on 1 November 1915.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hall |first=A. R. |title=The Abbey Scientists |page=52 |publisher=Roger & Robert Nicholson |year=1966 |oclc=2553524 }}</ref>