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 vi
... groups of the birds and insects collected by myself in the East , brought prominently before me some of the curious problems of Geographical Distribution ; but I should hardly have ventured to treat the whole subject , had it not been ...
... groups of the birds and insects collected by myself in the East , brought prominently before me some of the curious problems of Geographical Distribution ; but I should hardly have ventured to treat the whole subject , had it not been ...
Page vii
... groups of animals . These maps are not confined to groups of any fixed rank , but are devoted to a selection of groups of various grades . Some show the range of single species of a genus - as the lion , the tiger , the puma , and a ...
... groups of animals . These maps are not confined to groups of any fixed rank , but are devoted to a selection of groups of various grades . Some show the range of single species of a genus - as the lion , the tiger , the puma , and a ...
Page x
... groups of animals . As it is hoped they will be constantly referred to , double folding has been avoided , and they are consequently rather small ; but Mr. Stanford , and his able assistant in the map department , Mr. Bolton , have ...
... groups of animals . As it is hoped they will be constantly referred to , double folding has been avoided , and they are consequently rather small ; but Mr. Stanford , and his able assistant in the map department , Mr. Bolton , have ...
Page xix
... GROUPS OF ANIMALS.TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION . Order of succession of the Regions ( p . 173 ) -Cosmopolitan Groups ( p . 175 ) — Tables of Distributions of Families and Genera ( p . 177 ) 173-179 CHAPTER X. THE PALEARCTIC REGION ...
... GROUPS OF ANIMALS.TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION . Order of succession of the Regions ( p . 173 ) -Cosmopolitan Groups ( p . 175 ) — Tables of Distributions of Families and Genera ( p . 177 ) 173-179 CHAPTER X. THE PALEARCTIC REGION ...
Page xxi
... Group ( p . 422 ) — Celebes Group ( p . 426 ) —Origin of the Fauna of Celebes ( p . 436 ) - Australia and Tasmania , or the Australian Sub - region ( p . 438 ) -The Pacific Islands , or Polynesian Sub - region ( p . 442 ) —Fiji , Tonga ...
... Group ( p . 422 ) — Celebes Group ( p . 426 ) —Origin of the Fauna of Celebes ( p . 436 ) - Australia and Tasmania , or the Australian Sub - region ( p . 438 ) -The Pacific Islands , or Polynesian Sub - region ( p . 442 ) —Fiji , Tonga ...
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