The Malay Archipelago (book)

For the archipelago see Category:Malay Archipelago

Review

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)

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

External links

• The Malay Archipelago illustrated edition at Papua WebProject archive copy at the Wayback Machine