This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987).

This book thus provides much of interest to systematists working on contemporary groups of plants and animals, paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, and professors teaching courses in biogeography.

London, November 1849.

1849: When Charles Dickens discovers the corpse of an actor on the empty stage of a Manchester theatre Dickens himself becomes the number one suspect.

London, spring 1849.