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 ii
... Philippine Bonin Is L.Tehad 6 S Sierra E Leone GUINEA Fernando Polo Gaboon R Loango Congo R 2 Albert Nyanza ABYSSINIA A N Somali o Gondokoro Maldive IS Andaman Is Ceylon Nicobar I Malay Penin . s Victoria Nyanza Kilima Njaro Tanganyika ...
... Philippine Bonin Is L.Tehad 6 S Sierra E Leone GUINEA Fernando Polo Gaboon R Loango Congo R 2 Albert Nyanza ABYSSINIA A N Somali o Gondokoro Maldive IS Andaman Is Ceylon Nicobar I Malay Penin . s Victoria Nyanza Kilima Njaro Tanganyika ...
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... Philippine Islands . I also have to thank many naturalists , both in this coun- try and abroad , who have sent me copies of their papers ; and I trust they will continue to favour me in the same manner . An author may easily be mistaken ...
... Philippine Islands . I also have to thank many naturalists , both in this coun- try and abroad , who have sent me copies of their papers ; and I trust they will continue to favour me in the same manner . An author may easily be mistaken ...
Page xxi
... Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) — Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca , Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) -Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna ( p . 359 ) -Concluding ...
... Philippine Islands ( p . 345 ) — Java ( p . 349 ) -Malacca , Sumatra , and Borneo ( p . 353 ) - Probable recent Geo- graphical Changes in the Indo - Malay Islands ( p . 357 ) -Probable Origin of the Malayan Fauna ( p . 359 ) -Concluding ...
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... Philippines . 391 , 10 lines from foot , after Celebes add and the Papuan Islands . ,, 391 , 9 lines from foot ... Philippine Islands . 99 39 427 , 5 lines from foot , for tusks read jaw . 462 , 15 lines from foot , for p . 156 read p ...
... Philippines . 391 , 10 lines from foot , after Celebes add and the Papuan Islands . ,, 391 , 9 lines from foot ... Philippine Islands . 99 39 427 , 5 lines from foot , for tusks read jaw . 462 , 15 lines from foot , for p . 156 read p ...
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... Philippine islands after a hurricane , he met with floating masses of wood with trees growing upon them , so that they were at first mistaken for islands till it was found that they were rapidly drifting along . Here therefore , we have ...
... Philippine islands after a hurricane , he met with floating masses of wood with trees growing upon them , so that they were at first mistaken for islands till it was found that they were rapidly drifting along . Here therefore , we have ...
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