INDONESIA From 1854 to 1862, the English natu- ralist Alfred Russel Wallace, friend and rival of Charles Darwin, toured the East Indies in search of evidence for the theory of evolution. The archipelago, he wrote, seemed to have "a climate, vegetation, and animated life altogether peculiar to itself." Wallace's work in classifying flora and fauna led him to perceive the is- land chain as "a connected whole." Yet in his chatty travelogue, The Malay Archipelago (Harper, 1869;...