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WCP665

Enclosure (WCP665.837)

[1]1

Soon I found myself2 at Newcastle & here Mr Wallace took hold of me & conveying me to the Eastern Archipelago bid me notice how as we passed through the islands of Sumatra Java & Borneo & Java[.]

The Fauna shewed but ordinary changes commensurate with the distance we had passed, but then taking me to the Eastern Cliffs Shores of Bali, he pointed out that in the next island separated only by a distance of 15 miles, but by a deeper sea than those between the previous islands we had passed, the Fauna underwent a total change — that in short we were in one Continent so to speak & that at in Lombock began the great Continent of Australia.

recd from Wallace

21/10/63

1
Draft of an article by Stainton. Later published in The Entomologist’s annual for 1864. London: John van Voorst, Paternoster Row. Pp. 1-3.
2
Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892). British Entomologist. Secretary of the Entomological Society of London 1850-52; Secretary of the Linnean Society 1869-74; Secretary of the Zoological Record Association 1871-86.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Enclosure (WCP665.837)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Saint-Smith, Lucy [2012-02-16] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP665,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP665