The geographical and geological distribution of animals

THE author of this book tells us that, while anxious to present to the student a work of general reference, wherein the more salient features of the geography and geology of animal forms could be sought after and readily found, he also wished to call attention to the more significant facts connected with the past and present distribution of animal life, so as to lead to a correct conception of the relations of existing faunas. The need of such a work will be generally acknowledged, and, without doubt, this little volume of some 400 pages does to a great extent supply the need; but it may be that the time has not quite arrived for the appearance of a perfectly satisfactory work on the subject. Though the record of both geographical and geological distribution is a vast one, still there is a vast deal more of the record yet to come, and the very pages of Prof. Heilprin's work show what immense additions to the facts and the deductions drawn from these are based on the as yet incomplete publication of the results of the Challenger Expedition. When the author has these results to rely on, we find a certainty of fact and a sureness of deduction which give confidence to a general reader or to a student

Distribution (mathematics) · Geography · Physical geography · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Mathematics · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

• The History and Science of Gastropods in Archaeology

  Open Access•Peter T Bobrowsky, Peter Bobrowsky•American Antiquity•1984

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