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 vii
... connected with geographical changes as are the natural groups of species termed genera ; which may be considered to represent the average and more permanent distribution of an organic type , and to be more PREFACE . vii.
... connected with geographical changes as are the natural groups of species termed genera ; which may be considered to represent the average and more permanent distribution of an organic type , and to be more PREFACE . vii.
Page viii
... connected sketch of the relation of extinct Mammalia to the distribution of living groups , and have arrived at some very interesting and suggestive results . It will be observed that man is altogether omitted from the series of the ...
... connected sketch of the relation of extinct Mammalia to the distribution of living groups , and have arrived at some very interesting and suggestive results . It will be observed that man is altogether omitted from the series of the ...
Page xxi
... connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p . 408 ) —Austro - Malayan Sub - region ( p . 409 ) — Papua , or the New Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) -The ...
... connection between Australia and South America ( p . 398 ) —Insects ( p . 403 ) -Land shells ( p . 407 ) -Australian Sub - regions ( p . 408 ) —Austro - Malayan Sub - region ( p . 409 ) — Papua , or the New Guinea Group ( p . 409 ) -The ...
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... both organic and inorganic , and is connected with some of the most curious and difficult of the problems we shall have to discuss . Having thus defined our subject , let us glance at DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS . [ PART 1 .
... both organic and inorganic , and is connected with some of the most curious and difficult of the problems we shall have to discuss . Having thus defined our subject , let us glance at DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS . [ PART 1 .
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... connected view of the classification adopted in the various classes of animals dealt with . And lastly , as the existing distribution of animals is the result and outcome of all preceding changes of the earth and of its inhabitants , we ...
... connected view of the classification adopted in the various classes of animals dealt with . And lastly , as the existing distribution of animals is the result and outcome of all preceding changes of the earth and of its inhabitants , we ...
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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