 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 368 pages
...not distinguished by essential characters from the analogous species in the northern seas *. The fish of the Arabian gulf are said to differ entirely from...Mediterranean, notwithstanding the proximity of these seas. The flying-fish are found (some stragglers excepted) only between the tropics,—in receding from the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 362 pages
...not distinguished by essential characters from the analogous species in the northern seas *. The fish of the Arabian gulf are said to differ entirely from...Mediterranean, notwithstanding the proximity of these seas. The flying-fish are found (some stragglers excepted) only between the tropics, — in receding from... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1836 - 572 pages
...honey of Europe, Asia, and Africa being obtained from species having a close resemblance to each other. Nor are these differences confined to land animals...throughout the world. We shall now briefly speak, 2. Of ttie Effects of Diversity of Climate on the Distribution of Animals. In tropical climates, the qualities... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 300 pages
...diversified. Thus the Whales of the northern ocean are quite unlike those of the south ; as are the Seah, and other analogous animals in the polar regions....throughout the world. We shall now briefly speak, 2. Of tfie Effects of Diversity of Climate on the Distribution of Animals. ' In tropical climates, the qualities... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...peculiar to them, distinct from those which inhabit even contiguous seas. Thus the species common to the Arabian Gulf are said to differ entirely from those of the Mediterranean, and according to MM. Seron and Leseur, there is not a single animal of the southern regions which is... | |
 | Thomas Milner - Science - 1846 - 896 pages
...peculiar to them, distinct from those which inhabit even contiguous seas. Thus the species common to the Arabian Gulf are said to differ entirely from those of the Mediterranean, and according to MM. Seron and Leseur, there is not a single animal of the southern regions which is... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...peculiar to them, distinct from those which inhabit even contiguous seas. Thus the species common to the Arabian Gulf are said to differ entirely from those of the Mediterranean, and according to MM. SeYon andLeseur, there is not a single animal of the southern regions which is... | |
 | Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 352 pages
...not distinguished by essential characters from the analogous species in the northern seas *. The fish of the Arabian gulf are said to differ entirely from...Mediterranean, notwithstanding the proximity of these seas. The flying-fish are found (some stragglers excepted) only between the tropics,—in receding from the... | |
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... mass of water, and kill from a distance the prey they are anxious to devour. From the facts gathered with reference to fishes, it appears that particular districts or basins of the ocean have tribes peculiar to them, distinct from those which inhabit... 