reg1mental

. [Eng. regiment, s.; -al.] A. As adj.: Of or pertaining to a regiment. B. As subst. (pl.): The uniform worn by the men of a regiment; articles of military clothing. "Well, to be sure, this same camp is a pretty place with their drums, and their fifes, and their gigs, and their marches, and their ladies in regimentals."- Sheridan : The Camp , ii. 2. "Sweet Nature, stript of her embroider'd robe, Deplores the wasted regions of her globe." Cowper : Heroism. 2. The inhabitants of a particular district or region. "Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judæa, and all the region round about Jordan." - Matthew iii. 5. *3. Applied to the upper air; the heavens; the sky. "Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region." Shakesp.: Hamlet , ii. 2. 4. Applied to a part or division of the body. 'Made to tremble the region of my heart." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., ii. 4. *5. Place, rank, station, position. "He is of too high a region ." -Shakesp .: Merry Wives, iii. 2. II. Technically : 1. Bot . & Geog .: A portion of the world containing within it a distinct type or facies of vegetation. Grisebach establishes twenty-four: (1) The Arctic, (2) the Europæo-Siberian Forest, (3) the Mediterranean, (4) the Steppe, (5) the Chino Japan ese, (6) the Indian Monsoon, (7) the Sahara, Soudan, (9) the Kalahari, (10) the Cape, (11) the Austra lian, (12) the North American Forest, (13) the Prairie, (14) the Californian, (15) the Mexican, (16) the West Indian (17) the Cis-equatorial South American, (18) the Amazon, (19) che Brazilian, (20) the Tropical Andæan, (21) the Pampas, (22) the Chilian Transition, (23) the Antarctic Forest, and (24) the Oceanic Islands Region. 2. Zoogeography : A term proposed by Mr. P. L. Sclater, in 1857, for the division of the earth with respect to the geographical distribution of animals. It was warmly supported by Dr. Günther ( Proc . Zool . Soc ., 1858, pp. 373-398). Mr. Sclater's scheme, as modified by Wallace, is: IMG:content-0376.png:[blocks in formation] Europe), Siberia, Manchuria (or JaETHIOPIAN.....East Africa, West Africa, South Africa, ORIENTAL.... Hindu stan (or Central India), Ceylon, Indo-China (or Him a lay as), Indo Malaya. Madagascar. Zealand. AUSTRALIAN.... Austro-Malaya, Australia, Polynesia, New NEO TROPICAL.. Chili (or South Temperate America), Brazil, Mexico (or Tropical North America), Antilles. NEARCTIC...... California, Rocky Mountains, Alleghanies (or East United States), Canada. Other divisions were proposed by Mr. A. Murray, in 1866 (Geog. Distrib. Mammals); by Prof. Huxley (Proc. Zool. Soc ., 1868, pp. 294-319); by Mr. W. T. Blanford, at the meeting of the British A ociation at Exeter in 1869, and by Mr. E. Blyth ( Nature , March 30, 1871, pp. 427-29); but the divisions given above are now practically adopted by English speaking naturalists.