The flowers, also, which had their stamens and pistils placed, in relation to the size and habits of the particular insect which visited them, so as to favour in any degree the transportal of the pollen, would likewise be favoured.
On the other hand, the transportal of the lower eye of a flat-fish to the upper side of the head, and the formation of a prehensile tail, may be attributed almost wholly to continued use, together with inheritance.
Let the powers of transportal be such, and so will be the forms of one country to another--let geological changes go at such a rate, so will be the number and distribution of the species!
Sabine for half an hour on the subject, and could not make him see with respect to transportal the difficulty of the sinking question!
The accidental transportal of an amphibian from the mainland to an island is therefore almost inconceivable.
For it must be clear to anybody that the accidental transportal of a beetle or of a snail to a new country cannot affect its fauna or add one permanent member to it unless all these conditions are fulfilled.
As a matter of fact, only exceedingly few instances are on record of man having witnessed, for example, the accidental transportal across the sea to an island of a live animal.
But though actual observations of such abnormal instances of the dispersal of animals are few, many experiments have been made to demonstrate the possibility of a passive transportal of species over wide distances.
Instances of accidental transportal of land-reptiles to islands have actually been observed.
Perhaps the most powerful of all agents in the transportal of species by accidental means is man.
In the former edition and Appendix, I have given some facts on the transportal of erratic boulders and icebergs in the Antarctic Ocean.
Under these circumstances it is, I believe, quite impossible to explain the transportal of these gigantic masses of rock so many miles from their parent-source, on any theory except by that of floating icebergs.
The connection between the transportal of boulders and the presence of ice in some form, is strikingly shown by their geographical distribution over the earth.
For instance, in certain islands not tenanted by mammals, some of the endemic plants have beautifully hooked seeds; yet few relations are more striking than the adaptation of hooked seeds for transportal by the wool and fur of quadrupeds.
In the former edition and Appendix, I have given some facts on the transportal of erratic boulders and icebergs in the Atlantic Ocean.
North America it appears that the limit of their transportal extends to 53.
Assuming on geological grounds that the insular condition had been always maintained I had to explain the differentiation in the inland plants, or in other words to account for the failure of the means of transportal that once existed.
The transportaland origin of this vast bed of pebbles is an interesting problem.
Experiments on the transportal of seeds through the agency of animals, also gave him much labour.
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