Wallace Line genus of plants which does not cross the Line is the Australasian genus "Eucalyptus". Antonio Pigafetta had recorded the biological contrasts between the Philippines and the Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) (on opposite sides of the line) in 1521 during the continuation of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, after Magellan had been killed on Mactan. Moreover, as noted by Wallace himself, the observations in faunal differences between the two regions had already been made earlier by English navigator George Windsor Earl. In Earl's pamphlet "On the Physical Geography of South-Eastern Asia and Australia", published in 1845, he described how shallow seas
A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, "A Ship of the Line", which follows "The Happy Return", is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished "Hornblower and the Crisis"). However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower novel completed by Forester. It is one of three "Hornblower" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film "Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.". Hornblower has recently returned to