The history of the European fauna / [Robert Francis Scharff].

  • Robert Francis Scharff
Date:
1899
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Credit: The history of the European fauna / [Robert Francis Scharff]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This work was written as the outcome of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (yd scries, vol. iv., 1897), On the Origin of the European Fauna.” A summary of that paper appeared in Nature (vo\. Ivi., 1897), and fuller extracts of more important parts, with some criticisms, in the Geological Magazine (N.S., sec. iv., vol. iv., 1897). 1 freely acknowledge the value of these criticisms, which have largely assisted me to amplify and to improve upon the ideas laid down in the paper. I have found that it greatly facilitates comprehension of the arguments used, to give a few maps indicating in a general way the extent of former seas and continents. I may in this way, as Mr. Kendall has pointed out, have submerged many square miles of land which had never been covered by the sea,—at least not within recent geological times,— but the maps were intended as illustrations of my views in a broad spirit only. Some zoologists may be surprised that, in some cases, I have not followed the latest views in revised nomenclature. I felt that in a work of this kind it was of supreme importance to employ names still current in our leading text-books, such as Lepus variabilis for the Mountain Hare, instead of LePus timidus. After each chapter I have endeavoured to cfive a short summary of contents, while a biblio- graphy of the principal works and papers consulted will be found at the end. I should also acknowledge the aid which I have received from such excellent
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