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THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
VOLUME I
By
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE.
The land of the orang-utan, and the bird or paradise.
A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature.
To CHARLES DARWIN,
AUTHOR OF "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES,"
I dedicate this book, Not only as a token of personal esteem and
friendship But also To express my deep admiration For His genius and
his works.
PREFACE.
My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for
six years after my return; and I feel bound to give them full satisfaction
on this point.

When I reached England in the spring of 1862, I found myself
surrounded by a room full of packing cases containing the collections
that I had, from time to time, sent home for my private use. These
comprised nearly three thousand birdskins of about one thousand
species, at least twenty thousand beetles and butterflies of about seven
thousand species, and some quadrupeds and land shells besides. A large
proportion of these I had not seen for years, and in my then weakened
state of health, the unpacking, sorting, and arranging of such a mass of
specimens occupied a long time.
I very soon decided that until I had done something towards naming
and describing the most important groups in my collection, and had
worked out some of the more interesting problems of variation and
geographical distribution (of which I had had glimpses while collecting
them), I would not attempt to publish my travels. Indeed, I could have
printed my notes and journals at once, leaving all reference to questions
of natural history for a future work; but, I felt that this would be as
unsatisfactory to myself as it would be disappointing to my friends, and
uninstructive to the public.
Since my return, up to this date, I have published eighteen papers in the
"Transactions" or "Proceedings of the Linnean Zoological and
Entomological Societies", describing or cataloguing portions of my
collections, along with twelve others in various scientific periodicals on
more general subjects connected with them.
Nearly two thousand of my Coleoptera, and many hundreds of my
butterflies, have been already described by various eminent naturalists,
British and foreign; but a much larger number remains undescribed.
Among those to whom science is most indebted for this laborious work,
I must name Mr. F. P. Pascoe, late President of the Entomological
Society of London, who had almost completed the classification and
description of my large collection of Longicorn beetles (now in his
possession), comprising more than a thousand species, of which at least
nine hundred were previously undescribed and new to European
cabinets.
The remaining orders of insects, comprising probably more than two

thousand species, are in the collection of Mr. William Wilson Saunders,
who has caused