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Excerpt from The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants, Vol. 15 IN taking up the subject of the Geographical Distribution of species, it will at once be perceived, that human interference must be taken into consideration; the face of nature having been greatly changed by the removal of the forest, the cultivation of the soil, and the intro duction and dissemination of foreign animals and plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.