About Speaker

Charles H. Smith, Professor Emeritus at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky USA, is a retired librarian, historian/philosopher of science, and biogeographer. He has been interested in Alfred Russel Wallace since his graduate student days, and over a forty-year period has published seven books and more than seventy papers on the man, as well as founding and maintaining “The Alfred Russel Wallace Page,” a research website that includes the full-text of all of Wallace’s writings (plus many about him), and other kinds of commentary and bibliographic information.