Download or read book Collected papers written by Frederick William True and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of Meeting written by ANZAAS (Association) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States National Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who s Who in Pacific Navigation written by John Dunmore and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four centuries have passed since Europeans first set eyes on the Pacific, that vast ocean about which earlier generations had theorized and fantasized. They soon ventured forth in search of undiscovered lands, unknown peoples, and imagined riches . Eventually, the Pacific came to reflect the rivalries of Europe, as Spanish explorers were followed by the Dutch, the English, and the French, and then by traders and colonizers. Now, for the first time, collected in a single, convenient reference volume, readers will be able to find details of the lives and achievements of those who took part in this great era of exploration. This biographical dictionary includes the major figures of the voyages of exploration, as well as missionaries, traders, whalers, naturalists, and others who by accident or design contributed to European discovery in the Pacific between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scholars and others interested in this era will be able to identify easily and promptly the people they come across in their reading, situate them in their proper context, and gain an idea of their background, travels, and achievements. John Dunmore has scrutinized a wealth of primary and secondary sources to amass the information collected here. Some biographies are lengthy-noted individuals, like Cook, have spawned a massive bibliography — while others reflect the sparsity of the historical record. Who 's Who in Pacific Navigation includes a detailed bibliography, organized by country, to aid those wishing to delve further into any subject. The comprehensive index makes the information in the volume easily accessible.
Download or read book The Birds of Northern Melanesia written by Ernst Mayr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closely related, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London written by Linnean Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of additions to the library.
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Download or read book Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration 1750 1920 written by Ben Maddison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.
Download or read book Bibliographical Catalogue of the Described Transformations of North America Lepidoptera written by Henry Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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