Charles H. Smith, born 30 September 1950 at Winsted, Connecticut USA, is a professor and science librarian at Western Kentucky University (WKU). He is best known for his work as a historian of science on Alfred Russel Wallace. He created and maintains the website The Alfred Russel Wallace Page hosted by WKU and devoted to Wallace scholarship, which includes a comprehensive bibliography of Wallace's publications and interviews, texts of many of Wallace's works, and writings on Wallace by Smith and others. Smith has also produced a number of conventional writings on Wallace including the anthology Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings published in 1991 and his three-volume collection Alfred Russel Wallace: Writings on Evolution, 1843-1912 published in 2004, and various journal articles. Smith was originally trained as a biogeographer and has technical publications in that field, including the bibliographic compilation Biodiversity Studies: A Bibliographic Review published in 2000, and additionally several websites. He has also created and maintains three well known sites on music education hosted by WKU: The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American Folk Music Tradition, The Classical Music Navigator, and Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems. Western Kentucky University (WKU) is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky. ... Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. ... Biogeography is the science which deals with patterns of species distribution and the processes that result in such patterns. ... Ear to the Ground, a posthumous release of Malvina Reynolds recordings on the Folkways label, 2000. ...

External Links

• The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
• Smith's WKU page and bibliography
• The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American Folk Music Tradition
• The Classical Music Navigator
• Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems