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“The central and controlling incident of my life”: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Spice Islands and environs, March 1854 to March 1862

John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker (eds.): Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 319pp, $29.95 PB

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Flannery, M.A. “The central and controlling incident of my life”: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Spice Islands and environs, March 1854 to March 1862. Metascience 25, 425–428 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0097-2

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