Tropical nature, and other essays
by Alfred Russel Wallace
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
- Original Publication
- London: Macmillan and Co., 1878.
- Credits
- Aaron Adrignola, Neil Mercer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Ecology -- Tropics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 73563
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73563
- Release Date
- May 7, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TROPICAL NATURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS. — THE TROPICS. — ENGLAND.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.I . THE CLIMATE AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE EQUATORIAL ZONE.
- 5.II . EQUATORIAL VEGETATION.
- 6.III . ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS.
- 7.IV . HUMMING-BIRDS: AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE OF TROPICAL NATURE.
- 8.V . THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS AND SEXUAL SELECTION.
- 9.VI . THE COLOURS OF PLANTS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE. — ON THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE.
- 10.VII . BY-PATHS IN THE DOMAIN OF BIOLOGY: — ON SOME RELATIONS OF LIVING THINGS TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. — RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN VIEWS AS TO THE ANTIQUITY AND ORIGIN OF MAN.
- 11.VIII . THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AS INDICATING GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES. [63] — The Palæarctic Region. — The Ethiopian Region. — The Oriental Region. — Past Changes of the Great Eastern Continent. — Regions of the New World. — The Australian Region. — Summary and Conclusion.
- 12.ERRATUM.
- 13.INDEX.
- 14.Transcriber's Notes
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