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Published in 1931 for non-specialist readers, this engaging book explains what plant fossils can tell us about prehistoric times.

An evocative portrait of the country, its immense and sublime landscape, its people, and life on the Danish scientific station.

This 1911 book enquires into the relative antiquity of existing plants and illuminates evidence of plant life taken from the fossil record.

This 1932 volume presents an overview of plant-life in a way which can be understood by non-expert readers.

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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Excerpt from A Summer in Greenland A GOOD many years ago British Arctic Explorers, on their way to the Polar Sea, and other travellers first brought to Europe collections of fossil plants from Disko Island and from various localities on the adjacent coasts of Greenland. In more recent years large collections, made by Danish and Swedish Geologists, have been acquired by the museums of Copenhagen and Stockholm. To students of the vegetation of...

Excerpt from Fossil Plants, Vol. 2: A Text-Book for Students of Botany and Geology I Regret that pressure of other work has prevented the completion of this Volume within a reasonable time since the publication of Volume I. Had Volume II been written ten years ago, the discoveries made in the course of the last decade would have given an out-of-date character to much of the subject-matter. It is more especially in regard to the Ferns and the ...

Excerpt from Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of Species, Edited, for the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and the Syndics of the University Press In regard to the interpretation of a passage in The Origin of Species quoted on page 71, it seemed advisable to add an editorial footnote, but, with this exception, I h...

Excerpt from Fossil Plants, Vol. 3: A Text-Book of Students, of Botany and Geology In the Preface to Volume II published in 1910 I rashly stated that it was my intention "to devote such space as is available within the limits of a text-book to the neglected subject of the geographical distribution of plants at different stages in the history of the earth, " also that Volume III would be completed with as little delay as possible. Though nearl...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants: In the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History), The Jurassic Flora, II. Liassic and Colitic Floras of England (Excluding the Inferior Oolite Plants of the Yorkshire Coast)IN the volume The Jurassic Flora. I. The Yorkshire Coast, issued in 1900, I dealt exclusively with specimens in the British Museum and in other collections obtained from the Inferior Oolite plant-beds of East York...

Excerpt from Science and the Nation During the last two years there has been an increasing tendency to realize the pressing urgency not only for extending and improving scientific teaching but for a whole-hearted recognition, both by the individual and the State, of the supreme importance of utilizing and developing in the fullest measure the aptitude for scientific research which is unquestionably a characteristic of the British race. The ti...

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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History), Vol. 1: The Wealden Flora, Thallophyta Pteridophyta, Plates I-XIIt is satisfactory to know that in this country the long-neglected study Of the Mesozoic plants is now being taken up by so able a Botanist as Mr. Albert Seward, and that the first instalment of his Catalogue is now complete.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hun...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.