Foundations of biogeography : classic papers with commentaries / editors, Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H. Brown.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

xx, 1,291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

"Published in association with the International Biogeography Society and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA)."

PART ONE: Early classics / John C. Briggs, Christopher J. Humphries -- Excerpts from Dissertation II, on the increase of the habitable earth / Carolus Linnaeus (1781) -- Excerpts from Natural history, general and particular / Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon (1761) -- Excerpts from Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history and ethic philosophy / Johann Reinhold Forster (1778) -- Excerpt from Essai élémentaire de géographie botanique / Augustin de Candolle (1820) -- Excerpt from Essay on the geography of plants / Alexander von Humboldt (1805) -- Excerpts from Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology / Edward Forbes (1844) -- On an isothermal oceanic chart, illustrating the geographical distribution of marine animals / James Dwight Dana (1853) -- Excerpt from The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 / Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1853) -- On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves / Philip Lutley Sclater (1858) -- Excerpt from Darwiniana : essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism / Asa Gray (1876) -- Excerpts from On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / Charles Darwin (1859) -- Excerpt from The geographical distribution of animals / Alfred Russel Wallace (1876) -- Excerpt from The history of creation, or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes / Ernst Haeckel (1876) -- The history of the Neotropical region / Hermann von Ihering (1900).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1275-1286) and index.