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. Volume II
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1876
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"The 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 change"--Preface of vol. I.
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- Title
- 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. Volume II
- Creators
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- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
- Subject
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- Zoogeography
- Paleontology
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 1876
- Macmillan and Co., 1876
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (some col.)
- Table of Contents
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- a review of the chief forms of life in the several regions and sub-regions, with the indications they afford of geographical mutations. ch. XIV. The Neotropical region ; ch. XV. The Nearctic region ; ch. XVI. Summary of the past changes and general relations of the several regions -- pt. IV. Geographical zoology: a systematic sketch of the chief families of land animals in their geographical relations. Introduction. ch. XVII. The distribution of the families and genera of mammalia ; ch. XVIII. The distribution of the families and genera of birds ; ch. XIX. The distribution of the families and genera of reptiles and amphibian ; ch. XX. The distribution of the families of fishes, with the range of such genera as inhabit fresh water ; ch. XXI. The distribution of some of the more important families and genera of insects ; ch. XXII. An outline of the geographical distribution of mollusca ; ch. XXIII. Summary of the distribution and lines of migration of the several classes of animals -- General index.
- Copyright
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- Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2015