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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... Zoology ; but it was nearly the first written , and the copious materials collected for it enabled me to determine the ... Zoological Geo- graphy - the most novel , and perhaps the most useful and generally interesting part of my work ...
... Zoology ; but it was nearly the first written , and the copious materials collected for it enabled me to determine the ... Zoological Geo- graphy - the most novel , and perhaps the most useful and generally interesting part of my work ...
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... zoology , and to whom most of the names with which its pages are often crowded must necessarily be unmeaning , I give a series of twenty plates , each one illustrating at once the physical aspect and the special zoological character of ...
... zoology , and to whom most of the names with which its pages are often crowded must necessarily be unmeaning , I give a series of twenty plates , each one illustrating at once the physical aspect and the special zoological character of ...
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... Zoological Society of London down to 1865. Classicists now write Henicurus as the correct form ; but this seems to me one of those cases in which orthographical accuracy should give way to priority , and still more to con- venience . In ...
... Zoological Society of London down to 1865. Classicists now write Henicurus as the correct form ; but this seems to me one of those cases in which orthographical accuracy should give way to priority , and still more to con- venience . In ...
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... ZOOLOGICAL REGIONS . Principles upon which Zoological Regions should be formed ( p . 53 ) -Which class of Animals is of most importance in determining Zoological Regions ( p . 56 ) — Various Zoological Regions proposed since 1857 ( p ...
... ZOOLOGICAL REGIONS . Principles upon which Zoological Regions should be formed ( p . 53 ) -Which class of Animals is of most importance in determining Zoological Regions ( p . 56 ) — Various Zoological Regions proposed since 1857 ( p ...
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... ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY : A REVIEW OF THE CHIEF FORMS OF LIFE IN THE SEVERAL REGIONS AND SUB - REGIONS , WITH THE INDICA- TIONS THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MUTATIONS . CHAPTER IX . THE ORDER OF SUCCESSION OF THE REGIONS . - COSMOPOLITAN ...
... ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY : A REVIEW OF THE CHIEF FORMS OF LIFE IN THE SEVERAL REGIONS AND SUB - REGIONS , WITH THE INDICA- TIONS THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MUTATIONS . CHAPTER IX . THE ORDER OF SUCCESSION OF THE REGIONS . - COSMOPOLITAN ...
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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