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 ii
... known soundings are given in feet .. Lima 1 Desert RN L.Baikal Dauria Amer Gobi or Shamo Desert Manchuria Pekin MONGOLIA Moupin PERSIA Euphrates R. Persian & Oman Nejed ARABIA Red Yemen Sea Aden TURKE STAN AFGHANISTAN BALUCHISTAN Delhi ...
... known soundings are given in feet .. Lima 1 Desert RN L.Baikal Dauria Amer Gobi or Shamo Desert Manchuria Pekin MONGOLIA Moupin PERSIA Euphrates R. Persian & Oman Nejed ARABIA Red Yemen Sea Aden TURKE STAN AFGHANISTAN BALUCHISTAN Delhi ...
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... known or inferred changes in the organic and physical environment . This systematic review of the distribution of families and genera , now forms the last part of my book - Geographical Zoology ; but it was nearly the first written ...
... known or inferred changes in the organic and physical environment . This systematic review of the distribution of families and genera , now forms the last part of my book - Geographical Zoology ; but it was nearly the first written ...
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... known to many readers by his vigorous illustrations of the works of Sir Samuel Baker , Livingstone , and many other travellers , but these , his last series of plates , were , at my special request , executed with a care , delicacy ...
... known to many readers by his vigorous illustrations of the works of Sir Samuel Baker , Livingstone , and many other travellers , but these , his last series of plates , were , at my special request , executed with a care , delicacy ...
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... known word , I have not adopted it . I have also thought it best to preserve the initial letter of well- known and old - established names , for convenience of reference to the Indices of established works . As an example I may refer to ...
... known word , I have not adopted it . I have also thought it best to preserve the initial letter of well- known and old - established names , for convenience of reference to the Indices of established works . As an example I may refer to ...
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... known to occur ; to determine what others are possible or probable ; and to ascertain the various modes in which such changes affect the structure , the distribution , or the very exist- ence of animals . Two subjects of a different ...
... known to occur ; to determine what others are possible or probable ; and to ascertain the various modes in which such changes affect the structure , the distribution , or the very exist- ence of animals . Two subjects of a different ...
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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