Wallace celebration: Francis and Taylor's copyright policy ad absurdum

"Obviously Francis and Taylor and the Journal of Natural History are in a very good mood today offering free access to some of Wallace's papers. It is fantastic, that a publisher and a journal board is so generous to give us access to our 100 years old literature that is well out of copyright and thus should be out and open anyways. If Taylor and Francis and the Journal of Natural History would really care about science and dissemination of publication, then they would make anything that at least falls out of copyright open access and not sell it  at a horrendous price...."