Re: OT: baloney and cheese

John Cowan wrote:


> Roger Mills scripsit:
>
> > Then
> > there's the old Wallace Line, which divides Australian flora and fauna
from
> > mainland; IIRC it ran down the _east_ of Sulawesi, but I'm not sure
where it
> > divides the Lesser Sundas.
>
> Between Bali and Lompok.
Thanks.  But it's _Lombok_ (one doesn't often get a chance to correct you
:-))  Lompoc was the setting of one of W.C.Fields' movies ("The Bank Dick"
IIRC-- in which he was Edgar Sousé, note the accent aigu), home of the New
Old Lompoc House hotel and the Black Pussycat Cafe.

In fact, Wallace discovered it first there,
> and only later discovered its northward extension to between Borneo
> and Sulawesi.
I was going to look that up, as I had the impression Sulawesi was not
included, or was transitional at best(there is just one species of marsupial
there)

And yes, Darwin did poor Wallace dirt.........

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