CONTINENTAL ISLANDS OF RECENT ORIGIN: GREAT BRITAIN
Characteristic Features of Recent Continental Islands--Recent Physical
Changes of the British Isles--Proofs of Former Elevation--Submerged
Forests--Buried River Channels--Time of Last Union with the Continent--Why
Britain is Poor in Species--Peculiar British Birds---Fresh-water
Fishes--Cause of Great Speciality in Fishes--Peculiar British
Insects--Lepidoptera Confined to the British Isles--Peculiarities of the
Isle of Man Lepidoptera--Coleoptera Confined to the British
Isles--Trichoptera Peculiar to the British Isles--Land and Fresh-water
Shells--Peculiarities of the British Flora--Peculiarities of the Irish
Flora--Peculiar British Mosses and Hepaticae--Concluding Remarks on the
Peculiarities of the British Fauna and Flora
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