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IN his presidential address to the Geological Society of London in 1870, Huxley brought into correla tion with geological science the scheme of zoological provinces which he had proposed to the Zoological Society two years before. He recognized the fact that the distribution of life, as then known, implied “a vast alteration of the physical geography of the globe”, but he nevertheless conformed to the orthodox view of the time regarding the persistence of a general uniformity in the positions of the four great oceans from Devonian or perhaps earlier times.
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Permanence of Oceanic Basins and Continental Masses. Nature 139, 809–810 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139809a0
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