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. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 - 503 pages |
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Page xviii
... Neotropical Region ( p.78 ) -Nearctic Region ( p . 79 ) -- Observations on the series of Sub - regions ( p . 80 ) . 50-82 CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION AS AFFECTING THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION . Classification of the Mammalia ( p ...
... Neotropical Region ( p.78 ) -Nearctic Region ( p . 79 ) -- Observations on the series of Sub - regions ( p . 80 ) . 50-82 CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION AS AFFECTING THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION . Classification of the Mammalia ( p ...
Page 59
... Neotropical Region ; including South America , the Antilles , and Southern Mexico . This division of the earth received great support from Dr. Günther , who , in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1858 , showed that the ...
... Neotropical Region ; including South America , the Antilles , and Southern Mexico . This division of the earth received great support from Dr. Günther , who , in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1858 , showed that the ...
Page 64
... Neotropical Region of Mr. Sclater from the rest of the world . We thus have three primary divisions , which Professor Huxley seems inclined to consider as of tolerably equal zoological importance . But a consideration of all the facts ...
... Neotropical Region of Mr. Sclater from the rest of the world . We thus have three primary divisions , which Professor Huxley seems inclined to consider as of tolerably equal zoological importance . But a consideration of all the facts ...
Page 65
... Neotropical and Aus- tralian . It is perhaps less clear whether the Palearctic should be separated from the Oriental region , with which it has un- doubtedly much in common ; but there are many and powerful reasons for keeping it ...
... Neotropical and Aus- tralian . It is perhaps less clear whether the Palearctic should be separated from the Oriental region , with which it has un- doubtedly much in common ; but there are many and powerful reasons for keeping it ...
Page 66
... Neotropical regions . Pro- fessor Huxley and Mr. Blyth advocate the former course ; Mr. Andrew Murray ( for mammalia ) and Professor Newton ( for birds ) think the latter would be more natural . No doubt much is to be said for both ...
... Neotropical regions . Pro- fessor Huxley and Mr. Blyth advocate the former course ; Mr. Andrew Murray ( for mammalia ) and Professor Newton ( for birds ) think the latter would be more natural . No doubt much is to be said for both ...
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