Archhelenis und Archinotis Gesammelte Beiträge zur Geschichte der neotropischen Region

Abstract

FEW and far between are the naturalists in South America. But there are exceptions even to this rule. Good work has been done of late years in Buenos Ayres and Para, and the author of the present volume has not failed to avail himself of the abundant opportunities offered to him for research by the luxuriant fauna and flora of his adopted country. Dr. Herman von Ihering, the energetic director of the Museu Paulista at Sao Paulo, is well known to us in Europe by his essays on various subjects connected with the distribution of life in different parts of the world, particularly as regards the neotropical region. He has now collected these essays and reprinted them with additions in a uniform shape under the curious title which we give above. “Archhelenis” and “Archinotis” are names invented to designate the two principal continents which the author believes to have existed in the age of the Chalk, as shown in the map at the end of the volume. Three corresponding names (Archiplata, Archibrasilia, and Archiguiana) are proposed for the ancient bosses from which the whole continent of South America appears to have been developed, and are explained according to the author's views in his essay on the palseogeo-graphy of that region.

Archhelenis und Archinotis. Gesammelte Beiträge zur Geschichte der neotropischen Region.

By Herman von Ihering. Pp. iv + 350. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907.) Price 6 marks.