arity among intelligent minds, and hardly supports the belief
that his scientific work has been forgotten. Nor can this
popularity be a matter of much surprise, for few travellers have
possessed Wallace's powers of exposition, his lucidity and charm
of style. Professor Strasburger of Bonn has declared that through
"The Malay Archipelago" "a new world of scientific knowledge" was
unfolded before him. "I feel it ... my duty," he adds, "to
proclaim it with gratitude." Wallace's narrative has attracted
during the past half-century numerous naturalists to follow in his
tracks, many of whom have reaped rich aftermaths of his harvest;
but certain it is that no explorer in the same, if in any other,
region has approached his eminence, or attained the success he
achieved.

As a systematic zoologist, Wallace took no inconsiderable place;
his _metier_, however, was different. He described, nevertheless,
large sections of his Lepidoptera and of his birds, on which many
valuable papers are printed in the _Transactions_ of the learned
societies and in various scientific periodicals. Of the former,
special mention may be made of that on variation in the
"Papilionidae of the Malayan Region," of which Darwin has recorded:
"I have never in my life been more struck by any paper." Of the
latter, reference may be drawn to his account of the "Pigeons of
the Malay Archipelago" and his paper on the "Passerine Birds," in
which he proposed an important new arrangement of the families of
that group (used later in his "Geographical Distribution") based
on the feathering of their wings. Without a lengthy search through
the zoological records, it would be impossible to say how many
species Wallace added to science; but the constant recurrence in
the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum of "wallacei" as the
name bestowed on various new species by other systematists, and of
"Wallace" succeeding those scientifically named by himself, is an
excellent gauge of their very large number.

In the field of anthropology Wallace could never be an
uninterested spectator. He took a deep interest, he tells us, in
the study of the various races of mankind. His accounts of the
Amazonian tribes suffered greatly by the loss of his journals; but
of the peoples of the Malay Archipelago he has given us a most
interesti