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
... divisions of the earth ( regions and sub - regions ) to be adopted . I next drew up tables of the families and genera found in each region and sub - region ; and this afforded a basis for the geographical treatment of the subject ...
... divisions of the earth ( regions and sub - regions ) to be adopted . I next drew up tables of the families and genera found in each region and sub - region ; and this afforded a basis for the geographical treatment of the subject ...
Page x
... division of a region . Great care has been taken to associate in the pictures , such species only as do actually occur together in nature ; so that each plate represents a scene which is , at all events , not an impossible one . The ...
... division of a region . Great care has been taken to associate in the pictures , such species only as do actually occur together in nature ; so that each plate represents a scene which is , at all events , not an impossible one . The ...
Page 9
... division of the earth especially adapted to our purpose ; and we shall have to discuss at some length the reasons for the particular system adopted , -a discussion which must to some extent anticipate and summarize the conclusions of ...
... division of the earth especially adapted to our purpose ; and we shall have to discuss at some length the reasons for the particular system adopted , -a discussion which must to some extent anticipate and summarize the conclusions of ...
Page 38
... division of a tropical from a temperate climate , but also on account of recent geological changes which we shall ... divisions forms the nucleus . of a zoological region ; but the boundaries are so changed that the geographer would ...
... division of a tropical from a temperate climate , but also on account of recent geological changes which we shall ... divisions forms the nucleus . of a zoological region ; but the boundaries are so changed that the geographer would ...
Page 42
... divisions , the Coralline , Red , and Norwich Crags , show a decreasing number of southern , and an increasing number of northern species , as we approach the Glacial epoch . Still later than these we have the shells of the drift ...
... divisions , the Coralline , Red , and Norwich Crags , show a decreasing number of southern , and an increasing number of northern species , as we approach the Glacial epoch . Still later than these we have the shells of the drift ...
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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