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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... occur together in nature ; so that each plate represents a scene which is , at all events , not an impossible one . The species figured all belong to groups which are either pecu- liar to , or very characteristic of , the region whose ...
... occur together in nature ; so that each plate represents a scene which is , at all events , not an impossible one . The species figured all belong to groups which are either pecu- liar to , or very characteristic of , the region whose ...
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... occurred . Owing to my residence at a distance from the scientific libraries of the metropolis , I was placed at a great disadvantage ; and I could hardly have completed the work at all , had I not been permitted to have a large number ...
... occurred . Owing to my residence at a distance from the scientific libraries of the metropolis , I was placed at a great disadvantage ; and I could hardly have completed the work at all , had I not been permitted to have a large number ...
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... occurs ; the other is a result of very ancient changes both organic and inorganic , and is connected with some of the most curious and difficult of the problems we shall have to discuss . Having thus defined our subject , let us glance ...
... occurs ; the other is a result of very ancient changes both organic and inorganic , and is connected with some of the most curious and difficult of the problems we shall have to discuss . Having thus defined our subject , let us glance ...
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... 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 nature must ...
... 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 nature must ...
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... occurred either in the climate , soil , or vegetation of Northern Asia which led to the extinction of these forerunners of existing tropical species ; and we must always bear in mind that similar changes may have acted upon other ...
... occurred either in the climate , soil , or vegetation of Northern Asia which led to the extinction of these forerunners of existing tropical species ; and we must always bear in mind that similar changes may have acted upon other ...
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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