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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page v
... means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth , was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on the " Zoological Geography of ...
... means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth , was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on the " Zoological Geography of ...
Page vii
... means intend to criticise Mr. Murray's book , but merely to illustrate by an example , the method which has been hitherto employed , and which seems to me not well adapted to enable us to establish the foundations of the science of ...
... means intend to criticise Mr. Murray's book , but merely to illustrate by an example , the method which has been hitherto employed , and which seems to me not well adapted to enable us to establish the foundations of the science of ...
Page ix
... means of a series of numbers . These references I give in the form of diagrammatic headings to each family ; and , when the map has become familiar , these will , I believe , convey at a glance a body of important information . this ...
... means of a series of numbers . These references I give in the form of diagrammatic headings to each family ; and , when the map has become familiar , these will , I believe , convey at a glance a body of important information . this ...
Page x
... means of appropriate tints of colour . These maps will , I trust , facilitate the study of geographical distribution as a science , by showing , in some cases , an adequate cause in the nature of the terrestrial surface for the actual ...
... means of appropriate tints of colour . These maps will , I trust , facilitate the study of geographical distribution as a science , by showing , in some cases , an adequate cause in the nature of the terrestrial surface for the actual ...
Page xii
... means of the copious Index , the native country , the systematic position , and the numerical extent of every important and well established genus of land- animal may be at once discovered ; -information now scattered through hundreds ...
... means of the copious Index , the native country , the systematic position , and the numerical extent of every important and well established genus of land- animal may be at once discovered ; -information now scattered through hundreds ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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