 | 1848 - Liczba stron: 490
...by the operations of man or of animals introduced by his agency. The results of the examination are, "that the relationship of the flora to that of the...similar, but specifically very distinct congeners." The analogous distribution of the Fauna in the various islets of the group was illustrated by Mr. Darwin,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1887 - Liczba stron: 616
...hypothesis'—madrepores being salt-water animals that accumulate and putrefy in large numbers round the West Indian islands and the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Another is the ' rotten-wood hypothesis,' of which we read : ' The view that the origin and reproduction... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1894 - Liczba stron: 1002
...parts of America or the uplands of the tropical latitudes, the more peculiar are the saunas observed chiefly in the hot and damper regions, as the West...Indian Islands and the shores of the Gulf of Mexico."* Again, referring to the extraordinary winter of 1861-'C2 in California, or more properly in the Pacific... | |
 | Robert Edwards Carter Stearns - 1878 - Liczba stron: 284
...parts of America or the uplands of the tropical latitudes, the more peculiar are the same as observed chiefly in the hot and damper regions, as the West...-Indian Islands and the shores of the Gulf of Mexico."* Again, referring to the extraordinary winter of 1861-'62 in California, or more properly in the Pacific... | |
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The results of the examination are, "that the relationship of the flora to that of the adjacent continent is a double one, the peculiar or new species, being, for the most part, allied to plants of the cooler parts of America, or the uplands of the tropical... 