Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE TROPICS
- ENGLAND
- Preface
- Contents
- TROPICAL NATURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS
- I THE CLIMATE AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE EQUATORIAL ZONE
- II EQUATORIAL VEGETATION
- III ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS
- IV HUMMING-BlRDS AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE OF TROPICAL NATURE
- V THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS AND SEXUAL SELECTION
- VI THE COLOURS OF PLANTS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE
- VII BY-PATHS IN THE DOMAIN OF BIOLOGY
- VIII THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AS INDICATING GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES
- ERRATUM
- INDEX
VI - THE COLOURS OF PLANTS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- THE TROPICS
- ENGLAND
- Preface
- Contents
- TROPICAL NATURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS
- I THE CLIMATE AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE EQUATORIAL ZONE
- II EQUATORIAL VEGETATION
- III ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS
- IV HUMMING-BlRDS AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE OF TROPICAL NATURE
- V THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS AND SEXUAL SELECTION
- VI THE COLOURS OF PLANTS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE
- VII BY-PATHS IN THE DOMAIN OF BIOLOGY
- VIII THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AS INDICATING GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES
- ERRATUM
- INDEX
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- Tropical Nature and Other Essays , pp. 221 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1878