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Zoological Geography

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IN the annual address of the President of the Geological Society of London, just issued, an extract is given by anticipation from the forthcoming work of Dr. Günther, on the gigantic land-tortoises, wherein that naturalist discusses the question of the geographical connections by which the tortoises of the Mascarine region may have been related to those which are found in the Galapagos Islands.

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WOOD, S. Zoological Geography. Nature 18, 220 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018220a0

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