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Here’s is an interesting bit of data display, showing the distribution of animal life in torrid, temperate, and frigid zones. It is relatively small, 4×4″ or so, and is found in James Orton’s Comparative zoology, structural and systematic, published in New York by Harper and Brothers in 1889, (pg 389).
