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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Page viii
... animal kingdom as here given , and some ex- planation of this omission may perhaps be required . If the genus Homo had been here treated like all other genera , nothing more than the bare statement- " universally distributed " - could ...
... animal kingdom as here given , and some ex- planation of this omission may perhaps be required . If the genus Homo had been here treated like all other genera , nothing more than the bare statement- " universally distributed " - could ...
Page ix
... animals are , the zones of altitude above the sea level , and the strongly contrasted character of the surface as regards vege- tation - a primary condition for the support of animal life . I therefore designed a series of six maps of ...
... animals are , the zones of altitude above the sea level , and the strongly contrasted character of the surface as regards vege- tation - a primary condition for the support of animal life . I therefore designed a series of six maps of ...
Page x
... animals . As it is hoped they will be constantly referred to , double folding has been avoided , and they are ... animals in their true geographical relations . The artist , Mr. J. B. Zwecker , to whose talent as a zoological draughtsman ...
... animals . As it is hoped they will be constantly referred to , double folding has been avoided , and they are ... animals in their true geographical relations . The artist , Mr. J. B. Zwecker , to whose talent as a zoological draughtsman ...
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... 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 scattered ...
... 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 scattered ...
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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