The Malay Archipelago (book)

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For the archipelago see Category:Malay Archipelago

English: The Malay Archipelago is an 1869 book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature.

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Illustrations (in order of appearance)[edit]

1. Orang-Utan attacked by Dyaks
2. Rare Ferns on Mount Ophir
3. Remarkable Bornean Beetles
4. Flying Frog
5. Female Orang-Utan
6. Portrait of a Dyak Youth
7. Dyak crossing a bamboo bridge
8. Vanda lowii
9. Remarkable forest-trees
10. Ancient Bas-relief
11. Portrait of a Javanese Chief
12. Calliper Butterfly
13. Primula imperialis
14. Chief's House and Rice-shed in a Sumatran Village
15. Females of Papilio memnon
16. Papilio coon
17. Leaf-butterfly in flight and repose
18. Female Hornbill and young bird
19. Grammatophyllum, a gigantic Orchid
20. Gun-boring in Lombock
27. Racquet-tailed Kingfisher, Tanysiptera galatea
28. Wallace's Standardwing, male and female
32. Cuscus ornatus, a Moluccan marsupial
34. Natives shooting the Great Bird of Paradise Paradisaea apoda
35. Black Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus)
37. Male Brethidae (beetles) fighting
40. Horned flies
42. Red Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea rubra)
45. King and Twelve-wired Birds of Paradise
47. Superb Bird of Paradise, Lophorina superba
48. Six-shafted Bird of Paradise
49. Long-tailed Bird of Paradise
50. Great-shielded grasshopper
51. Papuan charm

External links[edit]

The Malay Archipelago illustrated edition at Papua WebProject

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The Malay Archipelago (book)