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 |
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... affinities of many of the fossils , and my want of practical acquaintance with Palæontology ; but having carefully examined and combined the works of the best authors , I have given what I believe is the first connected sketch of the ...
... affinities of many of the fossils , and my want of practical acquaintance with Palæontology ; but having carefully examined and combined the works of the best authors , I have given what I believe is the first connected sketch of the ...
Page xii
... affinities of animals . By means of the copious Index , the native country , the systematic position , and the numerical extent of every important and well established genus of land- animal may be at once discovered ; -information now ...
... affinities of animals . By means of the copious Index , the native country , the systematic position , and the numerical extent of every important and well established genus of land- animal may be at once discovered ; -information now ...
Page 51
... affinities , and habits of a species , now form only a part of its natural history . We require also to know its exact range at the present day and in prehistoric times , and to have some knowledge of its geological age , the place of ...
... affinities , and habits of a species , now form only a part of its natural history . We require also to know its exact range at the present day and in prehistoric times , and to have some knowledge of its geological age , the place of ...
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... affinities . In 1871 Mr. E. Blyth published in Nature " A suggested new Division of the Earth into Zoological Regions , " in which he indicates seven primary divisions or regions , subdivided into twenty - six sub - regions . The seven ...
... affinities . In 1871 Mr. E. Blyth published in Nature " A suggested new Division of the Earth into Zoological Regions , " in which he indicates seven primary divisions or regions , subdivided into twenty - six sub - regions . The seven ...
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... affinities . Neither does it seem advisable to adopt the Polynesian Region , or that comprising New Zealand alone ( as hinted at by Professor Huxley and since adopted by Mr. Sclater in his Lectures on Geographical Distribution at the ...
... affinities . Neither does it seem advisable to adopt the Polynesian Region , or that comprising New Zealand alone ( as hinted at by Professor Huxley and since adopted by Mr. Sclater in his Lectures on Geographical Distribution at the ...
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya 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 European 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 genus 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 South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions