En av de korteste omtalene var i The Ladies' Repository, som fant den: «a highly valuable and intensely interesting contribution to our knowledge of a part of the world but little known in Europe or America. But few of our tourists ever visit it, and scarcely any have ever gone to explore it. Mr. Wallace is not an amateur traveler, making a hasty visit, to return and write a hasty and almost useless book. He is an enthusiastic naturalist, a geographer, and geologist, a student of man and nature.» Anon (Mars 1869): «The Malay Archipelago (Review)». The Ladies' Repository29: 77.
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