 | ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876 - 566 lehte
...countries is, on the whole, very strongly marked in the northern hemisphere ; and to refuse to recognise this in a subdivision of the earth which is established...illogical and inconvenient. The one question then remains, whethei Nearctic region should be kept separate, or whether it si form part of the Palsearctie or of... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 602 lehte
...countries is, on the whole, very strongly marked in the northern hemisphere ; and to refuse to recognise this in a subdivision of the earth which is established...geographical terminology, would be both illogical and r??*Fr*?T inconvenient. The one question then remains, whether the Nearctic region should be kept separate,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 606 lehte
...countries is, on the whole, very strongly marked in the northern hemisphere; and to refuse to recognise this in a subdivision of the earth which is established...geographical terminology, would be both illogical and 66 DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. [PABT i. incouvenient. The one question then remains, whether the Nearctic... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 586 lehte
...countries is, on the whole, very strongly marked in the northern hemisphere ; and to refuse to recognise this in a subdivision of the earth which is established...clearly and concisely than by ordinary geographical teiminology, would be both illogical and inconvenient. The one question then remains, whether the Nearctic... | |
 | Joel Asaph Allen - 1878 - 174 lehte
...30° to 25° ! His divisions as recognized in the text are still more arbitrary and unphilosophic. Mr. Wallace, in his discussion of zoological regions,...question then remains, whether the Nearctic region should bo kept separate or whether it should form part of the Palsearctic or of the Neotropical. Professor... | |
 | 1878 - 932 lehte
...more arbitrary and unphilosophic« Mr. Wallace, in his discussion of zoological regions, says,—"The distinction between the characteristic forms of life...geographical terminology, would be both illogical aiid inconvenient. The one question then remains, whether the Nearctic region should be kept separate... | |
 | 1883 - 902 lehte
...Palicaretic or EurAsian, and the Neotropical, or South American, regions. The question under discussion is " whether the Nearctic region should be kept separate, or whether it should form part of the Palsearctic or of the Neotropical regions." Eminent authorities differ on the subject. Professor Heilprin... | |
 | 1883 - 414 lehte
...imperative. The question affecting the relationship of this region is thus stated by Wallace: •' Whether the Nearctic region should be kept separate, or whether it should form part of the Palaearctic or of the Neotropical regions. Professor Huxley and Mr. Blyth advocate the former course;... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - 1883 - 426 lehte
...imperative. The question affecting the relationship of this region is thus stated by Wallace : •' Whether the Nearctic region should be kept separate, or whether it should form part of the Palaearctic or of the Neotropical regions. Professor Huxley and Mr. Blyth advocate the former course... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - 1997 - 742 lehte
...southern half in the "Neotropical Region." Wallace himself thought (1876:66) that it was a question "whether the Nearctic Region should be kept separate, or whether it should form part of the Palaearctic or of the Neotropical regions." The literature, particularly of the 1880s and 1890s, was... | |
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... this in a subdivision of the earth which is established for the very purpose of expressing such contrasts more clearly and concisely than by ordinary geographical terminology, would be both illogical and inconvenient. The one question then remains,... 