Zoogeography: The Geographical Distribution of Animals
Zoogeography: The Geographical Distribution of Animals
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10.2307/1376223
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1980-06
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R. Manville
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R. Manville
小菲利普·J·达灵顿动物地理学：动物的地理分布。约翰·威利父子公司，纽约。PP.XIII+675，无花果80个。1957年9月20日。价格：15美元。大学动物地理学课程的教师人数不断增加，长期以来，他们一直在为不充分、过时或对这一包容性领域的某个特定方面存在偏见的教科书而苦苦挣扎。他们会欢迎这本书的出现，这本书诚实地试图强调动物分布的总体原则，通过对特殊方面的考虑，并根据目前的证据对似乎发生的事情进行了总体评估。这是地理上的，而不是生态、地质或历史上的动物地理学。它的格式很吸引人，组织严密，索引很好，几乎没有排版错误，总体来说是一项巧妙的工作。唯一的缺点是价格高得离谱，因为像今天的书一样，这本书的制作成本并不高。作者是哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆的昆虫馆长，专门研究甲虫的分类学。他曾多次到西印度群岛，以及哥伦比亚、澳大利亚、新几内亚、菲律宾和日本进行实地考察。在脊椎动物中，他对鸟类的了解最深，从小就观察并“小规模地收集它们”。这种与脊椎动物的分离(在策展意义上)，加上对分配问题的长期兴趣，以及与托马斯·巴伯、M·L·费尔纳德和W·M·惠勒等人的联系，是一个愉快的组合，形成了广阔的视角和客观的观点。他深入研究了这些文献，并就所有相关群体与当局进行了广泛的磋商。他的写作风格健谈而又权威，引用了适当的统计数据和例子，使用了精心挑选的图表和地图(使用了双正交而不是人们熟悉的墨卡托投影)，并提供了大量的条目…
Philip J. Darlington Jr. Zoogeography: the geographical distribution of animals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. Pp. xiii + 675, 80 figs. September 20, 1957. Price, $15.00. Teachers of college courses in zoogeography, of whom there is an ever-increasing number, have long struggled with textbooks which were inadequate, obsolete, or biased toward one particular aspect of this inclusive field. They will welcome the appearance of this volume which honestly attempts to stress the over-all principles governing animal distribution, with passing consideration of special facets and a general appraisal of what, in the light of present evidence, seems to have occurred. This is a geographical, not an ecological or geological or historical, zoogeography. It is attractive in format, carefully organized and well indexed, practically free of typographical errors, and altogether a masterly job. The only bad feature is the inordinately high price, for this was not an expensive book to produce, as books go today. The author, who is Curator of Insects at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, specializes in the taxonomy of beetles. Field studies have taken him several times to the West Indies, as well as to Colombia, Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan. Among the vertebrates, he knows birds the best, having watched and “collected them in a small way” since childhood. This detachment (in a curatorial sense) from vertebrates generally, together with a long interest in distributional problems and an association with such men as Thomas Barbour, M. L. Fernald and W. M. Wheeler, has been a happy combination making for a broad perspective and objective viewpoint. He has delved deeply into the literature and consulted widely with authorities on all groups concerned. He writes in a chatty yet authoritative style, cites appropriate statistics and examples, employs well-chosen diagrams and maps (the double orthographic rather than the familiar Mercator projection is used) and provides plentiful entries …