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 ii
... OCEAN BED . 120 110 100 90 GBear Lake 80 70 60 50 40 BAFFIN BAY BAFFIN LAND 60 $ Sitka N 50 Aleutian Islands 21,984 British Columbia Vancouver I Columbia R Rocky Mounta E 52 Slave Lake HUDSON BAY T C Winnipeg Puper sa Missouri Oregon 40 ...
... OCEAN BED . 120 110 100 90 GBear Lake 80 70 60 50 40 BAFFIN BAY BAFFIN LAND 60 $ Sitka N 50 Aleutian Islands 21,984 British Columbia Vancouver I Columbia R Rocky Mounta E 52 Slave Lake HUDSON BAY T C Winnipeg Puper sa Missouri Oregon 40 ...
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... ocean , and have left us nothing but these living records of their former existence . " The detailed study of several groups of the birds and insects collected by myself in the East , brought prominently before me some of the curious ...
... ocean , and have left us nothing but these living records of their former existence . " The detailed study of several groups of the birds and insects collected by myself in the East , brought prominently before me some of the curious ...
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... oceans , I determined to give upon map a summary of our knowledge of the contours of the ocean bed , by means of tints of colour increasing in intensity with the depth . Such a map , when it can be made generally accurate , will be of ...
... oceans , I determined to give upon map a summary of our knowledge of the contours of the ocean bed , by means of tints of colour increasing in intensity with the depth . Such a map , when it can be made generally accurate , will be of ...
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... Ocean - bed Frontispiece To face page 2. Map of the Palearctic Region 181 3. Plate I. The Alps of Central Europe with Characteristic Animals 195 4. Plate II . Characteristic Mammalia of Western Tartary 218 5. Plate III . Characteristic ...
... Ocean - bed Frontispiece To face page 2. Map of the Palearctic Region 181 3. Plate I. The Alps of Central Europe with Characteristic Animals 195 4. Plate II . Characteristic Mammalia of Western Tartary 218 5. Plate III . Characteristic ...
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... oceans , the Siberian or the Amazonian forests , the North African deserts , the Andean or the Himalayan highlands . There is yet another difference in the nature of the change we have been considering . The new animals which we meet ...
... oceans , the Siberian or the Amazonian forests , the North African deserts , the Andean or the Himalayan highlands . There is yet another difference in the nature of the change we have been considering . The new animals which we meet ...
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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