Dear Reader,

I've just been sorting through some photographs from my recent jaunt to Indonesia. I’ll be putting up a few in the near future to accompany a piece about what proved to be a highlight of the trip, following in the wake of Alfred Russell Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913). Well, almost. His accounts of travel in Borneo seem to centre around Suluwesi and the north. I can't actually find reference to him setting foot in Central Kalimantan, where we went. But the flora and fauna he describes was very similar to what we saw on our voyage up the Sekonyer river, and into the heart of Borneo. Meanwhile, here is a free collection of Alfred Russel Wallace’s works, offering various formats (Kindle etc, HTML and text), for your andragogical elevation and delight. I hope you enjoy.

• Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses (1853)
• The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 (1869)
• The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 (1869)
• Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870)
• The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct (1876)
• Tropical Nature, and Other Essays (1878)
• Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras (1881)
• Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of Its Applications (1889)
• A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro : with an account of the native tribes, and observations of the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon Valley (1889)
• Man's Place in the Universe (1904)
• My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions, Volume 1 (1905)
• My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions, Volume 2 (1905)
• Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation (1908)
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (posth. 1916, by James Marchmont)
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 (posth. 1916, by James Marchmont)

Julian
Edinburgh