18 Merriam Geographic Distribution of Life. 



Date Author Name given to region Based on Rank 



1831 Lesson [Florida division of South Birds 



Temperate Zone.] 



1843 Hinds [Florida division of West In- Plants 



dia Region.] 



1851 Binney (A.) . . Peninsula of Florida Mollusks ... 2 



1858 Cooper Floridian Region . Forests 2 



1859 Le Conte Subtropical Province Insects 2 



1866 Baird [Florida division of Atlantic Birds 3 



Region.] 



1866 Verrill [Florida division of West In- Birds 



dian Region.] 



1870 Brown Florida Subregion Forests 2 



1871 Allen Floridian Fauna Birds .'} 



1873 Cope Floridian District Reptiles and ."> 



batrachians. 



1874 Porter Florida Region Plants 1 



1883 Packard [Florida division of Antillean Animals 



Region.] 



1883 Jordan [Florida division of Neotrop- Mollusks ... 



ical Province.] 



1884. Sargent Semi-tropical forest of Florida. Forests 2 



1887 Drude [Florida division of Antillean Plants 



Region.] 



1887 Reichenow . . . [Florida division of South Birds 



American Region.] 



1887 Brendel South Florida [Antillean] . . . Plants 1 



1888 Schwarz [Florida division of Antillean Insects 



Region.] 



1890 Merriam [Florida division of Antillean Animals and 3 



Subregion.] plants. 



Antillean Division. 



The fauna and flora of the West Indies have been variously 

 interpreted by different writers, some placing the region in South 

 America, others in Mexico, and others still raising it to inde- 

 pendent rank. 



In 1822 Schouw, in mapping the plant areas of the world, 

 placed it in his ' Jacquin'b Realm or Realm of Cactuses and Peppers? 

 Subsequently, however (in 1833), he gave it independent pri- 

 mary rank, naming it ' Swartz's Realm? Martins, in 1837, was 

 first to bestow the name ' Antillean Realm ' upon Uhis region, which 

 he regarded as a division of primary rank, comprising the West 

 Indies and adjacent coasts of South and Central America, The 

 same arrangement was retained in his lectures on Floral Realms 

 in 1865. 



