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An account of ARW’s visceral reaction to capturing a new Ornithoptera, “the finest butterfly in the world”, and explains that he is remaining at Batchian, Moluccas with the intention of collecting additional Paradisea specimens.
ARW makes “a few remarks and criticisms” of Sclater’s paper [Sclater, P. L. 1859. The Geographical Distribution of Birds. Ibis, 1: 449-454.]. He challenges the areas that Sclater proposes for his “six grand zoological provinces” by redefining the regions. ARW discusses the geology and zoology of these areas.
Enthusiasm for entomology and desire to complete work on geographical and geological distribution of species in the Indo-Australian archipelago before returning to England; stereoscopic photo effects, Sims's business.
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Reply to Gould's letter of June 25th; re. Semioptera wallacei G. R. Gray.
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Bates' safe arrival (in England); hopes Bates will write a Fauna of the Amazon Valley; ARW's own plans for a similar work on the Malay Archipelago; hopes for exchange of duplicate specimens; paper on principles of Geographical distribution in the archipelago sent to the Linnean Society.
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