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The amazing thing is that he didn' t seem to mind missing out on all that fame. In fact in his letters he actually implies he was rather pleased not to have been put in the public eye. Perhaps it actually gave him more time to work on his extraordinary collection, which of course was his real passion. He could have been buried in Westminster Abbey next to Darwin, but his family declined. Instead he was buried in the local graveyard here in Dorset, close to trees and countryside, and of course his beloved insects. When it came to insects, Wallace was the supreme authority. When Darwin confidently predicted the existence of a moth that nobody had ever seen before, it was Wallace who helped him work on his theory. |
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lìng wài zhí de jìng pèi de yì diǎn shì, tā sì hū yì diǎn bù zài yì mò mò wú wén. tā de xìn jiàn zhōng shèn zhì biǎo dá le, tā shèn zhì gèng xī wàng zì jǐ bù wéi rén zhī. yě xǔ shì yīn wèi zhǐ yǒu zhè yàng, tā cái yǒu gèng duō shí jiān zhuān zhù yú tā de shōu cáng. zhè cái shì tā zhēn zhèng de rè qíng suǒ zài, tā běn kě yǐ cháng mián xī mǐn sì, xiāng bàn dá ěr wén zuǒ yòu. dàn shì tā jiā lǐ rén jù jué le zhè gè tí yì, yú shì tā bèi zàng zài duō sāi jùn dāng dì de mù yuán lǐ. yīng guó jiāo wài, lǜ shù chéng yīn, zhōu wéi shì tā suǒ ài de kūn chóng men. huá lái shì shì kūn chóng fāng miàn dí quán wēi zhuān jiā, dá ěr wén dāng nián céng yù yán, cún zài zhe yī zhǒng cóng wèi bèi fā xiàn de fēi é, zhèng shì huá lái shì bāng zhù tā wán chéng xiāng guān lǐ lùn. |