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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... present work is an attempt to collect and summarize the existing information on the Distribution of Land Animals ; and to explain the more remarkable and interesting of the facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic ...
... present work is an attempt to collect and summarize the existing information on the Distribution of Land Animals ; and to explain the more remarkable and interesting of the facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic ...
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... present work . 66 To those who are more interested in facts than in theories , the book will serve as a kind of dictionary of the geography and affinities of animals . By means of the copious Index , the native country , the systematic ...
... present work . 66 To those who are more interested in facts than in theories , the book will serve as a kind of dictionary of the geography and affinities of animals . By means of the copious Index , the native country , the systematic ...
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... present distribution of animals upon the several parts of the earth's surface is the final product of all these wonderful revolutions in organic and inorganic nature . The greatest and most radical differences in the productions of any ...
... present distribution of animals upon the several parts of the earth's surface is the final product of all these wonderful revolutions in organic and inorganic nature . The greatest and most radical differences in the productions of any ...
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... present study may often enable us , not only to say where lands must have recently disappeared , but also to form some judgment as to their ex- tent , and the time that has elapsed since their submersion . Having thus briefly sketched ...
... present study may often enable us , not only to say where lands must have recently disappeared , but also to form some judgment as to their ex- tent , and the time that has elapsed since their submersion . Having thus briefly sketched ...
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... barriers as the mammalia ; and from their larger numbers and the avidity with which they have been collected , they furnish materials of the greatest value for our present study . CHAP . II . ] 15 DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
... barriers as the mammalia ; and from their larger numbers and the avidity with which they have been collected , they furnish materials of the greatest value for our present study . CHAP . II . ] 15 DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION .
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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