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IN The Times of August 24 a correspondent appeals for the adequate official recognition of palæobotany in Britain, and suggests that “some millionaire, anxious to be of service to his day and generation” might “do a unique and serviceable deed in endowing this neglected but important science.” It is indeed strange, though true, that there is no professorship or lectureship in palæobotany in any of our universities, Cambridge alone having an ill-paid demonstratorship; and hitherto there has been no special curatorship of fossil plants even in the British Museum. This country only takes an honourable place in the promotion of the science at present because a few distinguished men of private means, and some enthusiastic students working in the midst of other duties, are devoted to it; and also because the actual occupants of the chairs of botany in Cambridge, London, and Manchester happen to make it their chief line of research.
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The Recognition of Palæobotany . Nature 87, 280–281 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087280a0
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