Links With the Past in the Plant World  by A. C. Seward
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The Cambridge Manuals of Science andLiterature
LINKS WITH THE PAST IN
THE PLANT WORLD
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Sequoia magnifica Knowlton, in the Yellowstone National Park.(From a photograph kindly supplied by Prof. Knowlton.) See p. 104.
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LINKS WITH THE
PAST IN THE
PLANT WORLD

BY

A. C. SEWARD,
M.A., F.R.S.

Professor of Botany in the
University of Cambridge

Cambridge:
at the University Press

1911
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AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
With the exception of the coat of arms atthe foot, the design on the title page is areproduction of one used by the earliest knownCambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521
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 PREFACE
M
Y object in writing this book is primarily tocall attention to some of the many questionswhich are raised by an enquiry into the relativeantiquity of existing plants, and to illustrate thenature of the evidence afforded by the records ofthe rocks. One may agree with the dictum, 'Thereis but one art—to omit,' but to practise this art isoften a difficult task. While fully conscious of theincompleteness of the treatment of the subjects dealtwith in these pages, and of defects in the method ofpresentation, I hope that I may succeed in attractingsome of my readers who are already inte                        
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