The History of the European Fauna
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The History of the European Fauna is a work by R. F. Scharff. The contents list names chapters called, among others, The Fauna of Britain, The Arctic Fauna and The Alpine Fauna. Charles Lyell relates that green rafts composed of canes and brush-wood are occasionally carried down the Parana River in South America by inundations, bearing on them the tiger, cayman, squirrels, and other quadrupeds.
The text says it was especially Darwin who gave a great stimulus to researches on the passive transportal of species, and notes that, though land-shells and their eggs are easily killed by sea-water, almost all oceanic islands, even the smallest and most isolated, are inhabited by them. The text says Mr. Lydekker has drawn attention to the fact that though the remote ancestors of the Elephantidæ resided in Europe, neither the latter continent nor North America was the home of the direct ancestor of any of the true Elephants.
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- R. F. Scharff
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
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- Biology
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