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  • Butterfly specimens showing Batesian mimicry
  • Butterfly specimens showing sexual dimorphism
  • Specimens of birdwing butterflies (Papilionidae)
  • Specimens of Asian beetles
  • Specimens of bugs, crickets and other insects
  • Specimens of stick and leaf insects, and a stag-horned deer-fly and other insects
  • Specimen pieces of bird and marsupial skin
  • Specimens of dead leaf butterflies and Trogonoptera brookiana
  • Collecting and sending insects to Bates
  • Collecting insects in Wales
  • Designing an insect cabinet
  • Exchanging insect lists with Bates and keeping a journal
  • Herbert Wallace collecting in Brazil
  • Fish drawing from the Rio Negro - Curimata species
  • Descriptions of fishes from the Upper Rio Negro - Curimata species
  • Fish drawing from the Upper Rio Negro - Ageneiosus species
  • Descriptions of fishes from the Rio Negro - Ageneiosus species
  • Wallace is shipwrecked and loses his collections
  • The start of Wallace's Malay Archipelago expedition
  • Collecting insects in Singapore
  • Collecting insects in Malacca and Mount Ophir
  • Qualities of a good field assistant and hand-rearing an orang-utan
  • Collecting in Borneo and the departure of his assistant
  • The insect life of the Malay Archipelago
  • Notes on birds in Macassar
  • List of expedition food supplies
  • Insects and their colouring
  • Wallace on biogeography
  • Payment to Wallace by the British Museum
  • Problems with the British Museum paying Wallace
  • Insect list from the Malay Archipelago
  • The Malay Archipelago book - map and dedication
  • Photograph of Fred Birch
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