Abstract
UNDER the presidency of Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies held an extremely successful congress at. Winchester from Wednesday to Saturday of last week. As Sir Archibald Geikie in his presidential address to the congress at Hastings last year had dealt with the geological history of the Weald, Dr. Scott this year appropriately discoursed on the flora of the Wealden strata. This was a subject of peculiar interest to the Union, inasmuch as many of the most interesting fossil plants of Wealden age have been obtained within the sphere of its activity. The flora was of similar type to that which had prevailed from the beginning of the Mesozoic period, and in so far as seed-hearing plants are concerned consisted chiefly of conifers and. cycads. It is believed that the angiosperms did not appear until later Cretaceous times, and their comparatively sudden rise was probably related to the contemporary development of insect life.
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The South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies . Nature 80, 476 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080476a0
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