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Geographical and Botanical pical regiona. Retrospect," by A. C. Seward, (c) SC.D., LL.D., F.RS.: Cam- bridge University Prase, 30 net.]
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A wonderfully uniform vegeta- tion at times; over all the land areas of the past,
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of the plint history, and mya- tery of the past?
(4) How far does the internal morphology and physiology of present day plants allow us to- draw analogies and concla- sions as to those of the past? (6) Doss wide distribution of a plant indicate antiquity? Or (d) A ́rine of vegetative types un- does local distribution? Or is like anything now flourishing neither a safe guide? (9) on the surface" of the earth. We might go on almost inde-, The sudden rise of certain finitely suggesting questions of modern - Corms aut if from no- | this type. Suffice it to say that whore by magic,
Professor Seward's large scientific The appearance and disappear outlook and unique, neademical ance of land and water arcas Itraining, restrain him from day over the surface of the globe (wild speculations. If the book has In such a fashion na to play any fault it is the almost pur ducks and drakes with our tanical mental restraint on the present geographical forming speculativo aldo. This, howovor, is logy and the fixed co-ordinates all to the good. Each individual by which we measure latitude reader will apeculate all the more and longitude.
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