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 vi
... separate groups of facts of unequal value , or those relating to groups of animals of unequal rank . As an example of what is meant , I may refer to Mr. Andrew Murray's large and valuable work on the Geographical Distribution of ...
... separate groups of facts of unequal value , or those relating to groups of animals of unequal rank . As an example of what is meant , I may refer to Mr. Andrew Murray's large and valuable work on the Geographical Distribution of ...
Page ix
... separate coloured or shaded map for each family would have made the work too costly , as the terrestrial vertebrates alone would have required more than three hundred maps . I had also doubts about the value of this mode of illustration ...
... separate coloured or shaded map for each family would have made the work too costly , as the terrestrial vertebrates alone would have required more than three hundred maps . I had also doubts about the value of this mode of illustration ...
Page xi
... separate parts of which the work is composed , has been , to some extent , determined by the illustrations and maps , which all more immediately belong to Part III . It was at first intended to place this part last , but as this ...
... separate parts of which the work is composed , has been , to some extent , determined by the illustrations and maps , which all more immediately belong to Part III . It was at first intended to place this part last , but as this ...
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... separate more or less distinct groups of animals . Arms of the sea are still more effective , if they are permanent ; a circumstance in some measure indicated by their depth . Thus islands far away from land almost always have very ...
... separate more or less distinct groups of animals . Arms of the sea are still more effective , if they are permanent ; a circumstance in some measure indicated by their depth . Thus islands far away from land almost always have very ...
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... by the most effectual and most permanent barriers . That ocean which has remained broadest and deepest from the most remote geological epoch will separate countries the productions of which most widely and CHAP . I. ] 7 INTRODUCTORY .
... by the most effectual and most permanent barriers . That ocean which has remained broadest and deepest from the most remote geological epoch will separate countries the productions of which most widely and CHAP . I. ] 7 INTRODUCTORY .
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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