The Fish That Took a Century to Name
The unlikely story of Alfred Russel Wallace’s pike
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10 min readFeb 21, 2019
By Christopher Kemp
On the morning of Friday, Aug. 6, 1852, Alfred Russel Wallace was summoned to the deck of the brig Helen. The boat was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and Wallace had already been at sea for 26 days. He was used to hardship. He’d spent the previous four years in the…
