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Modern Geography takes Account of Organic Life—Geographical Importance

of Plants—Origin of Domestic Vegetables—Transfer of Vegetable

Life—Objects of Modern Commerce—Foreign Plants, how

Introduced—Vegetable Power of Accommodation—Agricultural Products of

the United States—Useful American Plants Grown in Europe—Extirpation

of Vegetables—Animal Life as a Geological and Geographical

Agency—Origin and Transfer of Domestic Quadrupeds—Extirpation of Wild

Quadrupeds—Large Marine Animals Relatively Unimportant in

Geography—Introduction and Breeding of Fish—Destruction of

Fish—Geographical Importance of Birds—Introduction of

Birds—Destruction of Birds—Utility and Destruction of

Reptiles—Utility of Insects and Worms—Injury to the Forest by

Insects—Introduction of Insects—Destruction of Insects—Minute

Organisms