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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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Insect list from the Malay Archipelago
Full transcription
Insects of the Eastern Archipelago, collected by AR.Wallace
from May 1. 1854 to January 1858.
[a list of Coleoptera collected and their numbers follow under these headings:]
Singa[pore] Malac[ca] 6 months
Borneo 15 months
Macassar 6 months
Aru 6 months
Ambotyna 1 month
Probable totals
The above totals are I think, under rather
than over the mark.
[a list of Lepidoptera collected and their numbers follows under these headings:]
Lepidoptera
Total no. of species (Estimate)
[written vertically to the right of the list]
The numbers here given are certainly not far from the truth. It appears that in all orders except Coleop.[tera] & Lep.[idoptera] divines[?] I surpass you considerably in the number of species. Whether this is owing to your attention being so much absorbed by the hosts of your butterflies as to prevent your attending to the less interesting groups, or whether it shows a real deficiency in S. America to balance its undoubted superiority in Diwuii[?], is a question of much interest. You might partly solve it by resolutely devoting a month to the Hymenop.[tera] Diptera &c. almost exclusively, which compared with my average months collecting in these groups would furnish data for determining the point. ARW
from May 1. 1854 to January 1858.
[a list of Coleoptera collected and their numbers follow under these headings:]
Singa[pore] Malac[ca] 6 months
Borneo 15 months
Macassar 6 months
Aru 6 months
Ambotyna 1 month
Probable totals
The above totals are I think, under rather
than over the mark.
[a list of Lepidoptera collected and their numbers follows under these headings:]
Lepidoptera
Total no. of species (Estimate)
[written vertically to the right of the list]
The numbers here given are certainly not far from the truth. It appears that in all orders except Coleop.[tera] & Lep.[idoptera] divines[?] I surpass you considerably in the number of species. Whether this is owing to your attention being so much absorbed by the hosts of your butterflies as to prevent your attending to the less interesting groups, or whether it shows a real deficiency in S. America to balance its undoubted superiority in Diwuii[?], is a question of much interest. You might partly solve it by resolutely devoting a month to the Hymenop.[tera] Diptera &c. almost exclusively, which compared with my average months collecting in these groups would furnish data for determining the point. ARW
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