Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 21-Charles Knight

from Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 · host Alfred Russel Wallace

The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels in that region during the 1850s and early 1860s. Wallace contributed to the description of natural selection as a process in the evolution of species, along with Charles Darwin. (Summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

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