THE QUARTERLY 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



APKIL, 1869. 



I. THE MALAY AKCHIPELAGO.* 



OTHING- affords greater 

 relief to the hard -worked 

 scientific Htterateiir, who is 

 compelled day by day and 

 week by week to pore over 

 the labours and investigations 

 of experimentalists, or to sift 

 the theories of speculative 

 philosophers, until his brain 

 becomes confused with the 

 long lists of new genera and 

 species which are introduced 

 into every province of nature's 

 realm, or with the hypotheses, 

 more or less plausible, pro- 

 pounded by each new thinker, 

 than to cast aside such dry 

 and often uninteresting tech- 

 nicalities, and to follow, though 

 it be but in imagination, one 

 of those free lances of science, 

 the Naturalist Traveller. It is pleasant, indeed, to wander with 

 him through distant regions of the globe, little known to Europeans 



* 1. 'The ]\Ialay Archipelago : The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of 

 Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Natiu'e.' By Alfred 

 Kussel "Wallace, author of ' Travels on the Amazon and Eio Negro,' &c. 2 vols. 

 8vo, with 51 Illustrations and 9 Maps. London : Macmillan & Co. 1869. 



2. ' Travels in the East Indian Archipelago.' By Albert S. Bickmore, M.A., 

 Professor of Natural History in Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y. 1 vol, 8vo, 

 with 36 Illustrations and 2 Maps. London : John IMurray. 1868. 



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