On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

CHAPTER 12. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION—_continued_.

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Distribution of fresh-water productions. On the inhabitants of oceanic islands. Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals. On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland. On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification. Summary of the last and present chapters.