Encore -- :(Wallace Alfred Russel 1823 1913 The Malay Archipelago the land of the orang utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature)

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Navigating Boundaries : The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait

Anna Shnukal;Guy Ramsay;Yuriko Nagata;Anna Shnukal;Guy Ramsay;Yuriko Nagata

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Navigating Boundaries : The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait

2017

Navigating Boundaries belongs to a new generation of Asian–Australian historical studies. The essays presented here draw on an extensive, widely dispersed body of information, including much unpublished material, in order to narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland. Early chapters give an overview of Torres Strait Islander/Asian/European interaction, documenting the experiences of people from the five major Asian communities in the Torres Strait: Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Japanese and Sri Lankan. Later chapters inspect the early authorities of Torres Strait, including the former Resident Magistrate and the Protector of Aboriginals. Other chapters examine the contributions to Torres Strait culture made by Asian communities—from ethnic identity, clothing and cuisine, to religion, funeral and burial practices, and with a strong focus on the rich musical culture of Torres Strait Islanders. In the final chapter of the book, a variety of local voices narrate stories of Torres Strait people of Asian ancestry, providing a deeply personal insight into the Asian experience in Torres Strait.

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Social sciences - Asians--Migrations--Australia--Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) - Asian diaspora - Asians--Australia--Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)

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The Naturalist and His 'Beautiful Islands' : Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific

David Russell Lawrence;David Russell Lawrence

eBook | 2014 Please log in to see more details

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The Naturalist and His 'Beautiful Islands' : Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific

2014

'I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one's life'.Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands.As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world.This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.David Russell Lawrence is an anthropologist who has managed environmental programs in Melanesia and Southeast Asia for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. His most recent book was a re-examination of the place in Melanesian anthropology of the Finnish sociologist Gunnar Landtman who spent two years working with the Kiwai people of the lower Fly estuary. He recently managed a large-scale survey of 300 communities in the Solomon Islands for the Community Sector Program and has assisted with a number of the annual RAMSI People's Surveys in the islands. This work has given him insight into the colonial heritage of the Solomon Islands and a desire to tell the story of the establishment of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate through the eyes of the first Resident Commissioner, Charles Morris Woodford.

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Colonial administrators--Solomon Islands--Biography - Natural history--Solomon Islands - Ethnology--Solomon Islands

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Foreign Bodies : Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940

Bronwen Douglas;Chris Ballard;Bronwen Douglas;Chris Ballard

eBook | 2008 Please log in to see more details

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Foreign Bodies : Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940

2008

From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional, intellectual, religious, and practical dimensions. The argument developed is subtle, engrossing, and gives the paradigm of'race'its full use value. Foreign Bodies is a model of analysis and erudition from which historians of science and everyone interested in intercultural relations will greatly profit.— Claude Blanckaert, CNRS (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Paris, and Honorary President, French Society for the History of the Science of Man

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Racism--History - Ethnic relations - Race--Social aspects

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Oceanic Encounters : Exchange, Desire, Violence

Margaret Jolly;Serge Tcherkezoff;Darrell Tryon;Margaret Jolly;Serge Tcherke...

eBook | 2009 Please log in to see more details

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Oceanic Encounters : Exchange, Desire, Violence

2009

This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of'encounter'rather than the more common idea of ‘first contact'for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of ‘strangers'or ‘others'but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.

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Pacific Islanders--First contact with other peoples - Cultural relations

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A Biogeographer's Construction of Tropical Lands: A.R. Wallace, Biogeographical Method and The Malay Archipelago.

Taylor, David

Academic Journal | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. Mar2000, Vol. 21 Issue 1. Please log in to see more details

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Evolution and Empire: Alfred Russel Wallace and Dutch Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.

Clement, Mark

Academic Journal | Britain & the World. Mar2016, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p55-75. 21p. Please log in to see more details

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Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Animal Life

Hoagstrom, Carl W.;Hoagstrom, Carl W.

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Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Animal Life

2002

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Zoology--Encyclopedias

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The Origin of Species

Darwin, Charles;Beer, Gillian;Darwin, Charles;Beer, Gillian

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The Origin of Species

1996

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Evolution (Biology) - Natural selection

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Alfred Russel Wallace's 1886-1887 Travel Diary: The North American Lecture Tour.

BERRA, TIM M.

Review | BioScience. Jun2013, Vol. 63 Issue 6, p500-502. 3p. Please log in to see more details

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A short trip through the world of Alfred Russel Wallace

Porter, Duncan M.

Academic Journal | BioScience. June 2004, Vol. 54 Issue 6, p594, 2 p. Please log in to see more details

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Book Reviews.

Greenberg, Charles;Sanderson, Pete;Taylor, David;Jazeel, Tariq

Review | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. Jul2000, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p189. 9p. Please log in to see more details

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The ornithologist Alfred Russel Wallace and the controversy surrounding the dinosaurian origin of birds.

Ibrahim, Nizar;Kutschera, Ulrich

Academic Journal | Theory in Biosciences; Dec2013, Vol. 132 Issue 4, p267-275, 9p Please log in to see more details

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The ornithologist Alfred Russel Wallace and the controversy surrounding the dinosaurian origin of birds.

Theory in Biosciences; Dec2013, Vol. 132 Issue 4, p267-275, 9p

Over many years of his life, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) explored the tropical forests of Malaysia, collecting numerous specimens, including hundreds of birds, many of them new to science. Subsequently, Wallace published a series of papers on systematic ornithology, and discovered a new species on top of a volcano on Ternate, where he wrote, in 1858, his famous essay on natural selection. Based on this hands-on experience, and an analysis of an Archaeopteryx fossil, Wallace suggested that birds may have descended from dinosaurian ancestors. Here, we describe the 'dinosaur-bird hypothesis' that originated with the work of Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895). We present the strong evidence linking theropod dinosaurs to birds, and briefly outline the long and ongoing controversy around this concept. Dinosaurs preserving plumage, nesting sites and trace fossils provide overwhelming evidence for the dinosaurian origin of birds. Based on these recent findings of paleontological research, we conclude that extant birds indeed descended, with some modifications, from small, Mesozoic theropod dinosaurs. In the light of Wallace's view of bird origins, we critically evaluate recent opposing views to this idea, including Ernst Mayr's (1904-2005) arguments against the 'dinosaur-bird hypothesis', and document that this famous ornithologist was not correct in his assessment of this important aspect of vertebrate evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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MALAYSIA - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 - ORNITHOLOGISTS - BIRD evolution - NATURALISTS - TROPICAL forests - ARCHAEOPTERYX

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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): the forgotten co-founder of the Neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution.

Kutschera, Ulrich;Hossfeld, Uwe

Academic Journal | Theory in Biosciences; Dec2013, Vol. 132 Issue 4, p207-214, 8p Please log in to see more details

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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): the forgotten co-founder of the Neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution.

Theory in Biosciences; Dec2013, Vol. 132 Issue 4, p207-214, 8p

The British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), who had to leave school aged 14 and never attended university, did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin (1848-1852) and then in Southeast Asia (1854-1862). Based on this experience, and after reading the corresponding scientific literature, Wallace postulated that species were not created, but are modified descendants of pre-existing varieties (Sarawak Law paper, 1855). Evolution is brought about by a struggle for existence via natural selection, which results in the adaptation of those individuals in variable populations who survive and reproduce (Ternate essay, 1858). In his monograph Darwinism (1889), and in subsequent publications, Wallace extended the contents of Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) into the Neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution, with reference to the work of August Weismann (1834-1914). Wallace also became the (co)-founder of biogeography, biodiversity research, astrobiology and evolutionary anthropology. Moreover, he envisioned what was later called the anthropocene (i.e., the age of human environmental destructiveness). However, since Wallace believed in atheistic spiritualism and mixed up scientific facts and supernatural speculations in some of his writings, he remains a controversial figure in the history of biology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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AMAZON River Watershed - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 - BIOLOGICAL evolution - NATURALISTS - ANTHROPOLOGY - NATURAL selection - BIODIVERSITY

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At home among strangers: Alfred Russel Wallace in Russia.

Levit, Georgy;Polatayko, Sergey

Academic Journal | Theory in Biosciences; Dec2013, Vol. 132 Issue 4, p289-297, 9p Please log in to see more details

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At home among strangers: Alfred Russel Wallace in Russia.

Theory in Biosciences; Dec2013, Vol. 132 Issue 4, p289-297, 9p

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was an influential figure within Russian pre-Synthetic evolutionary biology, i.e. the time period before the Synthetic Theory of Evolution was established (ca. 1880-1930s). His major works were translated into Russian and his general ideas were read and discussed by both insiders and outsiders of scientific evolutionism. At the same time, Wallace played a controversial role in the growth of Darwinism in Russia, and Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has eclipsed Wallace in his influence on Russian evolutionary thinking. In this paper we briefly outline Wallace's impact on Russian pre-Synthetic scientific evolutionism and its general intellectual climate. We demonstrate that both Russian pro-Darwinian evolutionists and anti-Darwinians (scientific anti-Darwinians as well as creationists) were fully aware of Wallace's contributions to the development of evolutionary theory. Yet, Wallace's radical selectionism, as well as his controversial arguments for 'design in nature', predetermined his special place within the Russian intellectual landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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RUSSIA - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 - BIOLOGICAL evolution - CREATIONISM - SYNTHETIC biology - NATURAL selection

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Profiles in Science for Science Librarians: “What Lives Where, and Why”: Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Field of Biogeography.

Smith, Charles H.

Academic Journal | Science 2011, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p307-325, 19p Please log in to see more details

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Profiles in Science for Science Librarians: “What Lives Where, and Why”: Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Field of Biogeography.

Science 2011, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p307-325, 19p

Biogeography, the study of animal and plant distribution, has a history extending back to at least the eighteenth century. But it was not until the work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-nineteenth century that it really came into its own as a science. Darwin's importance notwithstanding, it was really Wallace who put the field on the map, and many of today's research threads can be traced back to his influence. This article provides a summary review of Wallace's life and work and biogeography as a field of study, including Wallace's role in its development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882 - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 - BIOGEOGRAPHY - ZOOGEOGRAPHY - PHYTOGEOGRAPHY

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The type specimens and type localities of the orangutans, genus Pongo Lacépède, 1799 (Primates: Hominidae).

Brandon-Jones, Douglas;Groves, Colin P.;Jenkins, Paulina D.

Academic Journal | Journal of Natural History. Sep2016, Vol. 50 Issue 33/34, p2051-2095. 45p. Please log in to see more details

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NATURAL SELECTION: ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE TRA DARWIN E SPENCER. (Italian)

Visone, Roberta

Academic Journal | Archivio di Storia della Cultura; 2021, Vol. 34, p31-70, 40p Please log in to see more details

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Alfred Russel Wallace, Geographer.

Smith, Charles H.

Academic Journal | Geography Compass; May2010, Vol. 4 Issue 5, p388-401, 14p Please log in to see more details

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Alfred Russel Wallace's discovery of “curious horned flies” and the aftermath.

Glaubrecht, M.;Kotrba, M.

Academic Journal | Archives of Natural History; 2004, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p275-299, 25p Please log in to see more details

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Interview with Redmond O'Hanlon.

Hindson, Katy

Academic Journal | Studies in Travel Writing; Sep2007, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p177-188, 13p Please log in to see more details

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Interview with Redmond O'Hanlon.

Studies in Travel Writing; Sep2007, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p177-188, 13p

In an interview with Katy Hindson at his Oxfordshire home on 5 May 2006, the author Redmond O'Hanlon, renowned for his unique blend of travel, natural history and self-deprecation, discusses how he came to be known as a travel writer. He describes how he feels about this label and talks of how his travels, and the act of writing about them, affect him. From recounting his very first experience of travel, and his first experiences of travel literature, O'Hanlon proceeds to talk about topics as diverse as religion, photography and insanity, all linked by the common theme of travel. His fascination with nineteenth-century naturalists and explorers such as Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates is in evidence in this interview as O'Hanlon explains how these authors inspired him. The motivations that lie behind travel writers' journeys are explored as O'Hanlon describes how, to him, confronting a six-foot long spear is a less frightening prospect than spending another grey afternoon at home in Oxfordshire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O'HANLON, Redmond - TRAVEL writers - TRAVEL writing - VOYAGES & travels

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A new piece in the puzzle for the riverine slugs of the Acochlidiidae (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata: Acochlidimorpha) helps tracing steps of their freshwater invasion.

Brenzinger, Bastian;Glaubrecht, Matthias;Jörger, Katharina M.;Schrödl, Mich...

Academic Journal | Organisms Diversity Jun2021, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p337-359, 23p Please log in to see more details

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A new piece in the puzzle for the riverine slugs of the Acochlidiidae (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata: Acochlidimorpha) helps tracing steps of their freshwater invasion.

Organisms Diversity Jun2021, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p337-359, 23p

Gastropods (slugs and snails) are prominent and species-rich faunal elements in marine and terrestrial habitats of the tropics. While several clades of snails inhabit freshwater systems, slugs are extremely rare in freshwater: only the centimeter-sized Acochlidiidae, with currently three genera, contain more than one species and live in the lower reaches of island streams in an area comprising Eastern Indonesia, Fiji, and Palau. Where known, the species of this unique group are specialized predators of other amphidromous snails' egg capsules (Neritidae) and their reproductive biology and adaptations to life in freshwater are complex. Acochlidiidae are thus of special interest for evolutionary biology and ecology. We here describe a new genus of unusually bluish-green acochlidiid to date known only from a single locality on the island of Ambon, Indonesia. Previous molecular data found this charismatic species to link slender Strubellia slugs with broad and flattened Acochlidium and Palliohedyle. We establish Wallacellia siputbiru n. gen. n. sp., the "blue slug" in Bahasa Indonesia, by using scanning electron microscopy of cuticular elements, light microscopy of serial semithin histological sections of the soft body, and 3D reconstruction of all organ systems based on these sections. Special structures of this seemingly rare endemic species include the enlarged kidney and the huge copulatory organ. Our data now clarify that, in the invasion of freshwater habitats in Acochlidiidae, sexual selection (the anterior three-part copulatory organ) preceded ecological selection (posterior flattened habitus with branched or multiplied internal organs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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INDONESIA - FIJI - PALAU - GASTROPODA - EGG cases (Zoology) - FRESH water - ENDANGERED species - BIOLOGICAL invasions - SEXUAL selection - MARINE habitats - FRESHWATER habitats

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Book | Charles Darwin: Zur Evolution der Arten und zur Entwicklung der Erde; 2014, p177-201, 25p Please log in to see more details

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTHROPOLOGY.

Birx, H. James

Reference | Encyclopedia of Anthropology; 2005, following p1-2373, 3128p, 368 Color Photographs, 85 Black and White Photographs, 25 Diagrams, 22 Charts, 16 Graphs, 12 Maps Please log in to see more details

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Bibliography.

Pauly, Daniel

Book | Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Icthyology, Ecology 2004, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p241-322, 82p Please log in to see more details