So I just found out about Alfred Russel Wallace's co-discovery of natural selection today, which I thought was pretty damn cool (and crazy, that I hadn't heard of him before!) After some subsequent wikipedia searching, I came across his book "The Malay Archipelago" which has some really stunning illustration:
(Just, you know, a little dramatised...)
More here if you want to lose yourself in an orgy of scientific illustration (you know you want to).
And a picture of the man himself, looking stern and sassy~
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