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IN NATURE (vol. xix. p. 124) I expressed doubt whether the beds containing fossil plants in or near the Arctic circle, said by Heer to be miocene, are really of that age. It seemed to me then very probable, but now I may say certain, that at least all those said to be lower miocene are truly eocene. The article was translated in Das Ausland, No. 2, 1879, and replied to by Heer in No. 8 (February 24) of the same journal. In this reply he, as I expected, combats my views, and, although affecting to believe that I had written without thought or previous study, he devotes eight columns to contradicting me, yet without bringing forward any fresh evidence whatever, or indicating any sources of information which I had not already consulted.
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GARDNER, J. Are there no Eocene Floras in the Arctic Regions? . Nature 20, 10–13 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020010a0
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