RECORD: Darwin, C. R.  [1869-1871]. A. R. Wallace, [Malay Archipelago]: I: 87 'orang throwing'; II: 'for Man'. CUL-DAR80.B100. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe. Corrections by Christine Chua 10.2021. RN2

Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. 2 vols. London: Macmillan and Co. http://wallace-online.org/content/search-results?pagesize=50&searchtitle=Malay+archipelago&pageno=1&datebefore=&publisher=&searchid=&allfields=&description=&name=Wallace+Alfred+Russel&freetext=&place=&periodical=&dateafter=&documenttype=Book&sort=identifier

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).


[B100]

Wallace Travels The Mal Arch Vol. I p. 87 Orang throwing for man (V. sexual)

Vol. 2 p. 43, 49 small colony from language & retain gestures & might afterwards reverse. —

2: p. 178 more difference of Papuan & Physical — V Beard - agreeing

1869 Races Papuans one bearded — other Malay not.—

207. Their moral differences cannot be explained so easily as physical

255. Man more adorned than women.

445 "compact frizzled mop which is the Papuans' pride and glory"

453 — Division of Papuans & Malay nearly cooincident with the 2 great provinces


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