CONTENTS. EARTH 



SCIENCES 



MBRARY 



PART I. 



ON THE GEOGRAPHY OP ANIMALS. 



CHAP. I. 



Reasons against the Belief that Food, Temperature, and other inferior 

 Agents, are the primary Causes of the Variation of Man. Limited 

 Range of Animals which yet possess great Locomotive Powers. Various 

 Opinions on the primary Distribution of Animals. Linnaeus, Prichard, 

 and others. Theories upon Animal Geography. Fabricius. Latreille. 

 Prichard. Propositions on this Subject stated. Geographic Distri- 

 bution of Man. Arctic Regions - - Page 1 



CHAP. II. 



EUROPE. 



Europe considered as a Zoological Province. This Proposition supported 

 by an analytical Survey of its Ornithology. Preponderance of its generic 

 Types. Its Analogy to the Caucasian Type -of Man. Results of the 

 foregoing Analysis. Its Zoology considered more in detail, under th e 

 Three Heads of Arctic, Central, and Southern Europe - - 18 



CHAP. III. 



ASIA. 



The Asiatic Province. Its general Character and Divisions. Northern, 

 Central, and Southern Asia. The Peculiarities of each, as shown in 

 their peculiar Animals. Asiatic Genera of Quadrupeds and Birds - 43 



CHAP. IV. 



ON THE AMERICAN PROVINCE. 



General Remarks. Its Zoological Features. Divided into Arctic, Tern- 

 perate, and Equinoctial America. The Peculiarities and Animals of 

 each. General Remarks upon the Climate arid Soil of Brazil, with 

 reference to the Distribution of its Animals. American Genera of 

 Quadrupeds and Birds - - - - - 56 



