Title: The regions of vegetation, being an analysis of the distribution of vegetable forms over the surface of the globe in connection with climate and physical agents
Abstract: The result of these investigations was the developement of regions of vegetation, and which had their origin and stability in previously established views.At the same time, I do not insist that these are natural, but that taken in their entireness, they present, in situations, circumstances of remarkable individualit y.In the meantime they will be found eminently useful in studying the features of vegetation, and more particularly in leading the subject to the naturalizati on of plants-the great end and aim of geographic botany.My views respecting these regions have been more fully dwelt on in Sir W. J. Hooker's Journal of Botany for June 1842, and our space here does not permit me to enter on these at a greater length.It is enough to add that these regions are the result of observation s matured during the voyage, and that with fourteen of them I have been practi cally acqua inted .