The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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... Geographical Society in 1863 , it was briefly sum- marized in the following passage : — " My object has been to show the important bearing of researches into the natural history of every part of the world , upon the study of its past ...
... Geographical Society in 1863 , it was briefly sum- marized in the following passage : — " My object has been to show the important bearing of researches into the natural history of every part of the world , upon the study of its past ...
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... geographical equality , compactness of area , and facility of definition , they are beyond all comparison better than any others that have yet been proposed for the purpose of facilitat- ing the study of geographical distribution . They ...
... geographical equality , compactness of area , and facility of definition , they are beyond all comparison better than any others that have yet been proposed for the purpose of facilitat- ing the study of geographical distribution . They ...
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... geographical distribution of animals may enable us to reconstruct the geography of a bygone age . But we must not , as Mr. Blyth proposed , make this hypothetical land one of our actual Zoo- logical regions . It represents what was ...
... geographical distribution of animals may enable us to reconstruct the geography of a bygone age . But we must not , as Mr. Blyth proposed , make this hypothetical land one of our actual Zoo- logical regions . It represents what was ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya beetles belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros snakes South America southern sub-region Sumatra tapir Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions