Abstract
THE botanical side of palæontology has been passed over in general treatises and text-books in a manner that shows the authors had little, if any, personal knowledge of fossil plants. This has been due to the want of any trustworthy elementary manual on the subject. Mr. Seward's admirable book, of which only the first volume is published, will supply this want. Though addressed to students of botany and geology, it must be regarded mainly as a guide to palæobotany for the benefit of the former, since no one not well versed in botany could follow the technical descriptions of such structures, for example; as the Calamites. On the other hand, introductory chapters on geology and the conditions under which fossil plants are preserved, enable the botanical student to read the book with no previous study of geology.
Fossil Plants for Students of Botany and Geology.
By A. C. Seward Vol. i. Pp. xviii + 452. (Cambridge University Press, 1898.)
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G., J. Fossil Plants for Students of Botany and Geology. Nature 59, 146–147 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059146a0
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