WSPEC008    Periodical contribution:     Baly, Joseph Sugar. 1865. Phytophaga Malayana. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, (series 3) 4: 1-300. .   Text   Image   PDF

punctato; elytris subcrebre fortiter punctatis, punctis subseriatim dispositis. Long. 2 lin. Hab. Singapore. Head triangular, front smooth, impressed in the middle with a shallow fovea, very minutely and distantly punctured, lower portion near the epistome coarsely and deeply punctured; epistome triangular, the sides nearly straight, converging backwards, the apex not separated from the face; anterior border produced into two short obtuse lobes, the space between them concave; surface impressed on its

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Drosophila pinguis * dorsalis * Ephydra taciturna * borboroides * maculicornis * Discomyza obscurata * * tenebrosa * Nomba tecta * Ochthera innotata * * Notiphila lineosa * quadrifascia * flavilinea * ortalioides * * unicolor * unilineata * carbonaria

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Limnobia infixa * contingens * exclusa * trisignata * delectata * innotabilis * selectissima * filiformis * Tipula pedata * * vilis * infindens * inordinans * fumifinis * congruens * pallida * Megistocera fuscana * Pachyrhina tripartita * tenuis

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Ruba opponens * Tinda modifera * recedens * Saruga conifera * * Chrysomyia bipars * Sargus luridus * * longipennis * * metallinus * * * * latifascia * complens * * fortis * rogans * * repensans * remeans * redhibens * mactans * * inactus * quadrifasciatus

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Laphria consurgens * socia * * * * Taphius * * * * tristis * * * * scapularis * * obliquistriga * * consobrina * comes * * * * complens * * replens * placens * flagellata * consors * * * divulsa * germana * * setipes * requisita * * * compta * sodalis

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Asilus involutus * * complens * condecorus * * Ommatius Hecate * * Pennus * * * * gracilis * inextricatus * discalis * scitulus * Lucifer * * * noctifer * * * * * * * * strictus * retrahens * * * * * * nanus * * * noctulus * canus * invehens * platymelas

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon' Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Psilopus abruptus * filifer * superans * * marginalis * orcifer * * Dolichopus electus * alligatus * collectus * trigonifer * cinereus * pr dicans * provectus * pr missus * proveniens * vicarius * pulchriceps * Diaphorus delegatus * resumens

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Syritta illucida * Volucella trifasciata * * decorate * Axona volucelloides * Baryterocera inclusa * gibbula * Citib na aurata * Syrphus ericetorum * * * * * * * * grotus * * * * * * * * * * * consequens * * * * duplex * triligatus * alternans

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Rutilia plumicornis * * fervens * * pectoralis * glorificans * Moneta * * lucigena * * atribasis * * complicita * * angustipennis * * sapphirina * excelsa * volucelloides * trixoides * * ignobilis * Gymnostylia invita * luteicornis * Prosena pectoralis

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Musca patiens * umbrifera * aricioides * sordidissima * pr cox * collecta * xanthomela * conducens * favillacea * * eristaloides * calliphoroides * * * pr dicens * promittens * * * * * * * ferruginea * trifascia * Bengalia Dioclea * spissa * Aricia patula

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Gauzania devecta * Celyphus obtectus * * * * scutatus * * * * Lauxania eucera * * detereuns * duplicans * minuens * perplexa * Lonch a inops * * * punctipennis * * consentanea * * atratula * Thressa signifera * Ochthiphila discoglauca * Xangelina

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Dacus perplexus * emittens * maculosus * * areolatus * strigifinis * diffusus * absolutus * nigrilinea * expandens * pectoralis * * * bilineatus * discipennis * sordidus * imitans * * exigens * inaptus * longivitta * * lativentris * obtrudens * latifascia

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

China. India. Philippines. Malacca. Borneo. Singapore. Gilolo. Ternate. Sumatra. Java. Waigiou. Bachian. New Guinea. Salwatty. Celebes. Ceram. Amboyna. Sula. Gorrite. Key. Aru. Kaisaa. Mysol. Solomon's Isles. Australia. Africa. Ceylon. Corea. Strumeta concisa * helomyzoides * Polyara insolita * * Achias maculipennis * * * * longividens * latividens * * amplividens * aspiciens * brachyophthalma * venustula * dacoides * Sepsis basifera * * * testacea * * frontalis * fascipes * revocans

WSPEC128    Periodical contribution:     Pascoe, Francis P. 1866. Catalogue of longicorn coleoptera collected in the island of Penang by James Lamb, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (22 November): 504-536, pls. 41-43.   Text   PDF

, more distant at the base, the broader flattish forehead, and long attenuated posterior legs. The elytra are in no wise carinated; and, owing to the weaker and more slender form, the habit is notably dissimilar. SIGEUM HUMERALE. (Pl. XLI. fig. 2.) Blemmya humeralis, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2. iv. p. 99. In Mr. Lamb's specimen the lines on the elytra, instead of being white, are yellow. Mr. Wallace once took it in Singapore. EURYARTHRUM. Euryarthrum, Blanchard, Hist. Nat. des Insectes, t. ii. p

WSPEC134    Periodical contribution:     Walker, Francis. 1866. Synopsis of the Diptera of the Eastern Archipelago discovered by Mr. Wallace and noticed in the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9 (1): 1-30   Text   PDF

. Wallace; and the districts may be mentioned in the following order: Malacca, with Mount Ophir, affords 51 species, and Singapore 67 species. Borneo comes next in succession, passing by Sumatra and Java, where the fauna is generally very distinct from that of the rest of the archipelago. Only 129 species are recorded from Borneo, and this extensive region is very inadequately represented. In Celebes the species collected amount to 236. Amboyna comes next; and several species of this island have

WSPEC128    Periodical contribution:     Pascoe, Francis P. 1866. Catalogue of longicorn coleoptera collected in the island of Penang by James Lamb, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (22 November): 504-536, pls. 41-43.   Text   PDF

; antenn yellowish, the first six joints very glossy, the rest pubescent, opake, the apex of the third beneath, the fourth almost entirely beneath, and the sixth at the apex generally tufted with dark fulvous hairs. Length 4 11 lines. DISTENIIN . NO MIA. No mia, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2. iv. p. 111. NO MIA FLAVICORNIS, Pascoe, l. c., pl. 22. f. 8. Found also by Mr. Wallace at Singapore and Sarawak. A specimen from the latter locality has a slender vertical spine on each side of the mesosternum

WSPEC128    Periodical contribution:     Pascoe, Francis P. 1866. Catalogue of longicorn coleoptera collected in the island of Penang by James Lamb, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (22 November): 504-536, pls. 41-43.   Text   PDF

Taken also by Mr. Wallace at Singapore and Sarawak. One of Mr. Lamb's specimens is an inch in length. CHLORIDOLTJM CINNYRIS. C. angustatum, aureo-viride; prothorace apice subtilissime transversim striato; scutello obsolete punctato; elytris vittis tribus cyaneo-viridibus ornatis; antennis pedibusque chalybeatocyaneis. Narrow, golden-green; head finely punctured, and slightly vertically striated between the eyes; prothorax oblong, broader than the head, finely transversely striated, on the

WSPEC128    Periodical contribution:     Pascoe, Francis P. 1866. Catalogue of longicorn coleoptera collected in the island of Penang by James Lamb, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (22 November): 504-536, pls. 41-43.   Text   PDF

posterior portion of the elytra black; the prothorax has sometimes a large black spot on the centre of the disk. Mr. Wallace has specimens from Borneo, Sumatra, and Lombok. It is also found in India and the Philippine Islands. EURYCLEA. Euryclea, J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 196. EURYCLEA CARDINALIS. Eurycephalus cardinalis, J. Thomson, Essai, c., p. 211. There is no apparent difference in the numerous examples I have seen of this magnificent species from Singapore and Sarawak, where it was

WSPEC128    Periodical contribution:     Pascoe, Francis P. 1866. Catalogue of longicorn coleoptera collected in the island of Penang by James Lamb, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (22 November): 504-536, pls. 41-43.   Text   PDF

species, so far as size and amount of spinosity on the antenn are concerned. Generally the cox are reddish; but I have a small specimen, with much less rugose antenn , in which the colour is scarcely to be distinguished from that of the femora. The example described above is from Sarawak, where, as well as in Singapore, the species was taken by Mr. Wallace. PRIONID . REMPHAN. Remphan, Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 1. i. p. 67. REMPHAN HOPEI, Waterhouse, l. c. pl. 8. f. 1. Remphan appears to

S156    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1873. Introduction. In: Smith, Frederick. 1873. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidæ of India and the Eastern Archipelago. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 11: 285-302.   Text   Image   PDF

near 300 were Longicornes, and 216 species of Aculeate Hymenoptera, will give some idea of my collections in this spot.After a considerable delay in Singapore, waiting for a vessel, I visited the island of Lombock, which, being highly cultivated and possessing little forest vegetation, produced a very scanty harvest of insects—especially as my two months' stay there was chiefly occupied in obtaining the birds of the island, which were very numerous and interesting. At length, in September 1856, I

S156    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1873. Introduction. In: Smith, Frederick. 1873. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidæ of India and the Eastern Archipelago. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 11: 285-302.   Text   Image   PDF

houses. X. latipes makes long round holes in dead trees. The beautiful X. cærulea is common about the town of Singapore.True honey-bees are found in the western half of the archipelago, and in the south-east as far as Timor, where, however, it is possible they may have been introduced. A. dorsata and A. testacea both construct large combs suspended from the underside of the branches of lofty forest-trees. They sting very severely; [page] 29

S725[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1895. Natural selection and tropical nature: Essays on descriptive and theoretical biology. London: Macmillan.   Text   Image   PDF

conditions. Whether we are at Singapore or Batavia, in the Moluccas or New Guinea, at Para, at the sources of the Rio Negro, or on the Upper Amazon, the equatorial climate is essentially the same, and we have no reason to believe that it materially differs in Guinea or the Congo. In certain localities, however, a more contrasted wet and dry season prevails, with a somewhat greater range of the thermometer. This is generally associated with a sandy soil, and a less dense forest, or with an open

WSPEC051    Periodical contribution:     Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. 1906. 3. Birds, pp. 79-515. In [Lankester, E.R., ed.]. The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. 2. Separate historical accounts of the several collections included in the Department of Zoology. [i-iii], [1]-782. London.   Text   PDF

, and the Malay Peninsula are described in 'Stray Feathers,' the most important memoir being the account, by Mr. Hume and himself, of the birds of Tenasserim (Stray Feathers, vi., pp. 1 524). When Mr. Hume gave up his ornithological work, Davison visited England and afterwards settled down for a time at Ootacamund in the Nilghiris, whence he sent some interesting birds to the British Museum. He was afterwards appointed to the Museum at Singapore, and made one more expedition into Pahang. The death

WSPEC051    Periodical contribution:     Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. 1906. 3. Birds, pp. 79-515. In [Lankester, E.R., ed.]. The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. 2. Separate historical accounts of the several collections included in the Department of Zoology. [i-iii], [1]-782. London.   Text   PDF

from South China. Presented. [1904. 12. 11, 1 154.] 1000 birds from Southern China. Presented. [1905. 12. 24, 1 1000.] Mr. Rickett, who was born in 1851, joined the eastern staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in January, 1871. He remained on the staff of the Bank till his retirement in April, 1904, and was stationed at various times in Japan, India, Java, the Straits Settlements and China. Being always fond of ornithology from his youth, he first made a collection of Singapore

S729[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1908. My life: A record of events and opinions. New edition, condensed and revised. London: Chapman & Hall.   Text   PDF

work again till six: coffee. Then read or talk, or, if insects very numerous, work again till eight or nine. Then to bed. Charles was a boy of sixteen whom I had brought with me from London as he wished to become a collector. He remained with me about a year and a half and eventually got employment on some of the plantations near Singapore. I next made an expedition to Malacca which I describe in one of my letters as follows: I have now just returned to Singapore after two months' hard work

S729[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1908. My life: A record of events and opinions. New edition, condensed and revised. London: Chapman & Hall.   Text   PDF

CHAPTER XII THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO (1854 1858) MY wanderings and adventures in the far East have been recorded in my book The Malay Archipelago. I will therefore give here but a brief outline with a few extracts from my letters and references to subjects of special interest. I remained at Singapore for several months collecting insects and birds in the forests around. In a letter home I give a short account of my daily life at this time: I will tell you how my day is now occupied. Get up at

S729[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1908. My life: A record of events and opinions. New edition, condensed and revised. London: Chapman & Hall.   Text   PDF

beautiful ferns and pitcher-plants, of which I made a small collection. Elephants and rhinoceroses, as well as tigers, are abundant there, but we had our usual bad luck in seeing only their tracks. On returning to Malacca I found the accumulation of two or three posts a dozen letters, and about fifty newspapers. hellip; I am glad to be safe in Singapore with my collections, as from here they can be insured. I have now a fortnight's work to arrange, examine, and pack them, and four months hence

S729[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1908. My life: A record of events and opinions. New edition, condensed and revised. London: Chapman & Hall.   Text   PDF

Timor and Singapore, Mr. Frederick Geach, the mining engineer, came home from the East, and we became very intimate, and saw a good deal of each other. He was a Cornishman, and familiar with tin, lead, [page] 36

S729[2d]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1908. My life: A record of events and opinions. New edition, condensed and revised. London: Chapman & Hall.   Text   PDF

gigantea, 277, 281 Sexual selection, 236 Sheffield, lecture in, 299 Shipwreck, 152 159 Silent monitor, R. Owen's, 54 Silk, George, letters to, 21, 74,171, 199 Silsoe and Wray Park, 67 Sims, Mr., lodge with, at Neath, 133 Singapore, life at, 175 Sketches while at Leicester school, 129 Slate quarries, bad investment in, 359 Slate-writing under test conditions, 352 Slater, Mr. M. B., Dr. Spruce's executor, 314 Sleigh, Frances, a possible relative, 2 Smoking, experiences of, 59, 79 Snowdon, the ancient

WS1.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text

two months, and then return to Singapore to prepare for a voyage to Cambodia or somewhere else, so do not be alarmed if you do not hear from me regularly. Love to all. Your affectionate son, ALFRED R. WALLACE. TO HIS MOTHER Singapore. September 30, 1854. My dear Mother, I last wrote to you from Malacca in July. I have now just returned to Singapore after two months' hard work. At Malacca I had a pretty strong touch of fever with the old Rio Negro symptoms, but the Government doctor made me take a

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part of it (with the exception of the Island of Java) had been explored, it offered unlimited attractions for his special work. But as the journey out would be an expensive one, he was advised to lay his plans before Sir Roderick Murchison, then President of the Royal Geographical Society, and it was through his kindly interest and personal application to the Government that a passage was provided in one of the P. and O. boats going to Singapore. He left early in 1854. Arrived at Singapore, an

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gatherings that he first met Huxley, and he also had a vague recollection of once meeting and speaking to Darwin at the British Museum. Had it not been for his extreme shyness of disposition, and (according to his own estimation) lack of conversational powers, he would doubtless have become far more widely known, and have enjoyed the friendship of not a few of the eminent men who shared his interests, during this interval before starting on his journey to Singapore. It was due to his close study of

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am glad to be safe in Singapore with my collections, as from here they can be insured. I have now fortnight's work to arrange, examine, and pack them, and then in four months hence there will be some work for Mr. Stevens. Sir James Brooke is here. I have called on him. He received me most cordially, and offered me every assistance at Sarawak. I shall go there next, as the missionary does not go to Cambodia for some months. Besides, I shall have some pleasant society at Sarawak, and shall get on

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insects, besides birds, shells, quadrupeds, and plants. The day I arrived here a vessel sailed for Macassar, and I fear I shall not have another chance for two months unless I go a roundabout way, and perhaps not then, so I have hardly made up my mind what to do. Your affectionate brother, ALFRED R. WALLACE. TO HIS BROTHER IN-LAW, THOMAS SIMS Singapore. [Probably about March, 1856.] Dear Thomas, . . . You and Fanny talk of my coming back for a trifling sore as if I was within an omnibus ride of

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months' residence in the country, he left his young assistant, Charles Allen, there. He entered my service, and remained some time after the formation of the Borneo Company. Later, he again joined Wallace, and then went to New Guinea, doing valuable collecting and exploring work. He finally settled in Singapore, where I met him in 1899. He had married and was doing well; but died not long after my interview with him. He had come to the East with Wallace as a lad of 16, and had been his faithful

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! and in the United States, California, and India got subscriptions sufficient to complete it. It is a curious and not very creditable thing that in the English colonies of Singapore and Malacca there is not a single Protestant missionary; while the conversion, education and physical and moral improvement of the inhabitants (non-European) is entirely left to these French missionaries, who without the slightest assistance from our Government devote their lives to the Christianising and civilising

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! . . . Your ever affectionate son, ALFRED R. WALLACE. TO HIS SISTER, MRS. SIMS Singapore. February 20, 1856. My dear Fanny, . . . I have now left Sarawak, where I began to feel quite at home, and may perhaps never return to it again; but I shall always look back with pleasure to my residence there and to my acquaintance with Sir James Brooke, who is a gentleman and a nobleman in the noblest sense of both words. . . . Charles has left me. He has stayed with the Bishop of Sarawak, who wants

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to visit the interior and collect till November, and then work my way to Singapore so as to return home and arrive in the spring. Travelling here will be a much pleasanter business than in any other country I have visited, as there are good roads, regular posting stages, [page] 8

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much. The Rajah has sent me some of his pigeons and fowls and cats' skins from the interior of Borneo and from Singapore. Can you tell me positively that black jaguars or leopards are believed generally or always to pair with black? I do not think colour of offspring good evidence. Is the case of parrots fed on fat of fish turning colour mentioned in your Travels? I remember a case of parrots with (I think) poison from some toad put into hollow whence primaries had been removed. One of the

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his story is substantially true making allowance for his being a foreigner who learnt one system of measures, then lived thirty years among savages, and afterwards had to reproduce all his knowledge in English and Australian idioms. As an intelligent writer in the Saturday Review says, putting aside the sensational illustrations there is absolutely nothing in his story but what is quite possible and even probable. He must have reached Singapore the year after I returned home, and I dare say

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Insects used for Food by the Indians of the Amazon June 13 1853 Royal Geograph. Soc. The Rio Negro 1854 5 Zoologist Letters from Singapore and Borneo 1854 6 Trans. Entomol. Soc. Description of a New Species of Ornithoptera 1855 Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. On the Ornithology of Malacca 1855 Journ. Bot. Botany of Malacca 1855 Zoologist The Entomology of Malacca Sept. 1855 Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. On the Law which has regulated the Introduction of New Species 1856 Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist

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; interest in phrenology and mesmerism, 24, ii. 181, 182; studies beetles and butterflies, i. 24, 114; school teacher at Leicester, 24; voyage to Amazon, 26 et seq.; explores Uaup s River, 29; fire at sea and loss of collections, 29, 30; first meeting with Darwin, 35, 105, ii. 62; meets Huxley, i. 35; visits Switzerland, 35, ii. 204; visits Singapore, i. 36; on missionaries, 37 8, 47, 48, 50, 62 3; in Sarawak, 38 40; beetle and butterfly collecting, i. 38, 41 2, 114, 237, ii. 4 5; ill-health of, i