TRANSFER, MODIFICATION, AND EXTIRPATION OF VEGETABLE AND OF ANIMAL
SPECIES.
Modern Geography takes Account of Organic Life--Geographical Importance
of Plants--Origin of Domestic Vegetables--Transfer of Vegetable
Life--Objects of Modern Commerce--Foreign Plants, how
Introduced--Vegetable Power of Accommodation--Agricultural Products of
the United States--Useful American Plants Grown in Europe--Extirpation
of Vegetables--Animal Life as a Geological and Geographical
Agency--Origin and Transfer of Domestic Quadrupeds--Extirpation of Wild
Quadrupeds--Large Marine Animals Relatively Unimportant in
Geography--Introduction and Breeding of Fish--Destruction of
Fish--Geographical Importance of Birds--Introduction of
Birds--Destruction of Birds--Utility and Destruction of
Reptiles--Utility of Insects and Worms--Injury to the Forest by
Insects--Introduction of Insects--Destruction of Insects--Minute
Organisms