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Fossil Plants, Vol. 1: For Students of Botany and Geology (Classic Reprint)
Fossil Plants Vol 1 For Students of Botany and Geology - Classic Reprint Author:A. Charles Seward Excerpt from Fossil Plants, Vol. 1: For Students of Botany and Geology — In acceding to Mr Shipley's request to write a book on Fossil Plants for the Cambridge Natural History Series, I am well aware that I have undertaken a work which was considered too serious a task by one who has been called a "founder of modem Palaeobotany." I owe more than ... more »I am able to express to the friendship and guidance of the late Professor Williamson; and that I have attempted a work to which he consistently refused to commit himself, requires a word of explanation. My excuse must be that I have endeavoured to write a book which may render more accessible to students some of the important facts of Palaeobotany, and suggest lines of investigation in a subject which Williamson had so thoroughly at heart.
The subject of Palaeobotany does not readily lend itself to adequate treatment in a work intended for both geological and botanical students. The Botanist and Geologist are not always acquainted with each other's subject in a sufficient degree to appreciate the significance of Palaeobotany in its several points of contact with Geology and recent Botany. I have endeavoured to bear in mind the possibility that the following pages may be read by both non-geological and non-botanical students.
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