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Filtering by: Creator Appleton, Leonard Roald Remove constraint Creator: Appleton, Leonard Roald Academic Affiliation General Science Remove constraint Academic Affiliation: General Science Subject Biogeography -- History Remove constraint Subject: Biogeography -- History

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  • An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

    Creator:
    Kinch, Michael P.
    Abstract:
    At the beginning of the nineteenth century most theorizing British naturalists supported a Biblical account of the distribution of life which was based upon the notion that life had been dispersed from the resting place of the ark. This implied a relatively even dispersion of life about the Earth, but...
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    Masters Thesis
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    botanic garden at the University of Berlin. Leonard Wilson claims that Willdenow was the first to espouse