...in an unbroken continent, if we take wide spaces, we find these invisible boundary lines to exist. There is found one assemblage of species in China,...fourth in the great platforms of Siberia and Tartary. There are no indigenous quadrupeds common to the old and the new world. The elephant, the rhinoceros,...

...communication, the diversity in the specific character of the respective vegetations is almost as striking. Thus there is found one assemblage of species in China,...great platforms of Siberia and Tartary, and so forth. The distinctness of the groups of indigenous plants, in the same parallel of latitude, is greatest...

...in an unbroken continent, if we take wide spaces, we rind these invisible boundary lines to exist. There is found one assemblage of species in China,...fourth In the great platforms of Siberia and Tartary. There are no indigenous quadrupeds common to the old and the new world. The elephant, the rhinoceros,...

...countries separated by wide ocean^ )Thus there is found one assemblage of species in China, another m the countries bordering the Black Sea and the Caspian,...district having a peculiar species of vegetation^ £Twentj great botanical provinces have been established, although many of these contain a variety...

...land-communication, the diversity in the specific character of the respective vegetations is almost as striking. Thus there is found one assemblage of species in China,...and the Caspian, a third in those surrounding the Meditorranean, a fourth in the great platforms of Siberia and Tartar}', and sc forth. The distinctness...

...are so completely divided, does not strike one with so much astonishment as that there should be ' found one assemblage of species in China, another in the countries bordering the Black Sea, and a third in those surrounding the Mediterranean.' Here, distance and prior occupancy seem to take the...

...land-communication, the diversity in the specific character of the respective vegetations is almost as striking. Thus there is found one assemblage of species in China,...in the great platforms of Siberia and Tartary, and sc forth. The distinctness of the groups of indigenous plants, in the same parallel of latitude, is...

...are so completely divided, does not strike one with so much astonishment as that there should be ' found one assemblage of species in China, another in the countries bordering the Black Sea, and a third in those surrounding the Mediterranean.' Here distance and prior occupancy seem to take the...

...communication, the diversity in the specific character of the respective vegetations is almost as striking. Thus there is found one assemblage of species in China,...great platforms of Siberia and Tartary, and so forth. The distinctness of the groups of indigenous plants, in the same parallel of latitude, is greatest...

...geological change. From Humboldt's plant geography Lyell had already learned to see nature as variety: "one assemblage of species in China, another in the...great platforms of Siberia and Tartary, and so forth." Even a small island might have its unique set of beings. And the oceans too, though less clearly divided,...