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 xvii
... Fishes ( p . 29 ) —Means of Dispersal of Mollusca ( p . 30 ) -Means of Dispersal of Insects and the Barriers which limit their Range ( p . 32 ) 10-34 CHAPTER III . DISTRIBUTION AS AFFECTED BY THE CONDITIONS AND CHANGES OF THE EARTH'S ...
... Fishes ( p . 29 ) —Means of Dispersal of Mollusca ( p . 30 ) -Means of Dispersal of Insects and the Barriers which limit their Range ( p . 32 ) 10-34 CHAPTER III . DISTRIBUTION AS AFFECTED BY THE CONDITIONS AND CHANGES OF THE EARTH'S ...
Page xviii
... Fishes ( p . 101 ) -Classification of Insects ( p . 102 ) -Classification of Mollusca ( p . 104 ) 83-104 PART II . ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF EXTINCT ANIMALS . CHAPTER VI . THE EXTINCT MAMMALIA OF THE OLD WORLD . Historic and Post ...
... Fishes ( p . 101 ) -Classification of Insects ( p . 102 ) -Classification of Mollusca ( p . 104 ) 83-104 PART II . ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF EXTINCT ANIMALS . CHAPTER VI . THE EXTINCT MAMMALIA OF THE OLD WORLD . Historic and Post ...
Page xxi
... Fishes ( p . 456 ) -Insects ( p . 457 ) —The Ancient Fauna of New Zealand ( p . 459 ) —The Origin of the New Zealand Fauna ( p . 459 ) -Causes of the Poverty of Insect - life in New Zealand : its Influence on the Character of the Flora ...
... Fishes ( p . 456 ) -Insects ( p . 457 ) —The Ancient Fauna of New Zealand ( p . 459 ) —The Origin of the New Zealand Fauna ( p . 459 ) -Causes of the Poverty of Insect - life in New Zealand : its Influence on the Character of the Flora ...
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... fishes and insects are capable of multiplying several thousandfold each year , so that in a few years they would reach billions and trillions . Even large and slow breeding mammals , which have only one at a birth but continue to breed ...
... fishes and insects are capable of multiplying several thousandfold each year , so that in a few years they would reach billions and trillions . Even large and slow breeding mammals , which have only one at a birth but continue to breed ...
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... fishes . The annual or periodical movements of mammalia are of a different class . Monkeys ascend the Himalayas in summer to a height of 10,000 to 12,000 feet , and descend again in winter . Wolves everywhere descend from the mountains ...
... fishes . The annual or periodical movements of mammalia are of a different class . Monkeys ascend the Himalayas in summer to a height of 10,000 to 12,000 feet , and descend again in winter . Wolves everywhere descend from the mountains ...
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