Wallace Line Line. Wallace Line The Wallace Line or Wallace's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, that separates the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea, a transitional zone between Asia and Australia. West of the line are found organisms related to Asiatic species; to the east, a mixture of species of Asian and Australian origin is present. Wallace noticed this clear division during his travels through the East Indies in the 19th century. The line runs through Indonesia, between Borneo and Sulawesi (Celebes), and through
Henry A. Wallace with theosophist figures undermined his campaign, and were based on the closeness with which he hewed to the Kremlin's Party line and the number of Communist Party members and Party-liners manning the machinery of the campaign. Wallace received 2.4% of the popular vote, and Truman prevailed over Wallace, Republican Thomas E. Dewey, and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. After the election, Wallace returned to farming and studied agricultural science. He later published a memoir repudiating his former foreign-policy views and supported the Republican Party nominees in the 1956 and 1960 presidential elections. The Wallace family was of Scots-Irish Presbyterian heritage and had