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THERE can be no doubt about Mr. Lydekker's qualifications to enter on the field of geographical distribution. The author of the excellent treatise on mammals in the “Royal Natural History,” after serving an apprenticeship on the Indian Geological Survey, has arranged and catalogued the splendid series of remains of extinct mammals in the British Museum. Alone of European palœontologists, he has likewise visited the rich collections recently amassed in the museums of Buenos Ayres and La Plata. He has thus the advantage, not possessed by any previous writer on the subject, of a more intimate acquaintance with the past history of mammals than perhaps any other living naturalist has been able to accumulate, and on the present occasion has made good use of it.
A Geographical History of Mammals.
By R. Lydekker, &c. Cambridge Geographical Series. Pp. xii + 400. (Cambridge: University Press, 1896.)
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See "What are Zoological Regions?" (NATURE, Vol. xlix. p. 611).
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A Geographical History of Mammals. Nature 54, 457–458 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054457a0
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