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Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint of the Botanist - Couverture souple
Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Botany, which in former times generally treated palaeophytology in a very step-motherly manner, now finds it to be a subject of the highest interest to herself on account of the prominence at present assumed by the point of view of the theory of descent. But it is no easy task to obtain a general view of such results of palaeophytological researches as are botanically useful; for, owing to the inconceivably fragmentary condition of the literature and the urgent necessity for submitting it to manifold and searching criticism, the accomplishment of this task inevitably means the devotion to it of years of work, and few professed botanists have this time to give to it. And if our present text-books do not succeed in giving us such a view, this is chiefly due to the fact that they are all more or less endeavouring to serve two masters, palaeontology and botany, and in this endeavour it is botany which as a rule comes worst off. It is hardly possible rightly to preserve unity of presentation in a book in which equal justice ought to be done to several points of view. Therefore the present account of palaeophytology, which may itself appear to some readers to be rather one-sided, may be allowed to step in as supplying an existing want. It is a first attempt in the direction indicated, and as such it has many defects which are certainly thoroughly well known to the author himself, and which he begs may not be judged too severely. The work here offered to the general public has gradually grown up out of University Lectures delivered by me in Gottingen at three different times in the course of the last six years. I had at first intended to preserve the lecture-form, but ultimately found that this was unsuitable and must be abandoned. Then came the difficulty of finding a proper title.
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