ANYONE desirous of prosecuting a biological research expedition to the tropics would be well advised to read this little book, which is charmingly written and illustrated, and equally well translated.

The Indonesian island of Sumatra is the second largest of the Greater Sunda Islands, In the Malay Archipelago, and the sixth largest Island in the world. Sumatra is known for its rugged tropical ...

This is Insulindia, or the Malay Archipelago, the land of 25,000 islands that were explored by Alfred Russel Wallace between 1854 and 1862 and where he made some of the most important scientific ...