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the great Palaearctic, or, as I should prefer to call it, the Holaretic 

 Eegion (76 c). Only one or two of those who deal with the subject, 

 treat it at all exhaustively, I believe Mr. H. C. Watson was the first 

 to group together the British flora into six provinces, and this idea was 



1. — Map of the Britisli Islands indicating roiighly the tracts principally 

 occupied hy — 



— the northern fauna ; 

 \ the southern fauna ; and, 

 / the eastern fauna. 



afterwards more completely carried out in his " Cybele Britannica " 

 (91). Messrs. Moore and More adopted similar divisions in their 

 " Cybele Hibernica " (58). Only five botanical provinces were 

 recognized by the late Prof. E. Forbes (33 a), who added in each case 

 examples of animals, which seemed to him to belong to these provinces. 



