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SUCH is the title of a paper, in a recent Princetown Review, by Prof. Dawson, whose intention in writing has been to place clearly and concisely before his readers the facts, as he interprets them, connected with the fossil floras of the Arctic and North American regions. The necessity to do so became apparent, he states, from the time that Heer described the cretaceous1 Vancouver Island flora as miocene, and yet more when the Devonian Bear Island flora was described as carboniferous. The present publication, however, was immediately induced by Saporta's very remarkable essay on the northern origin of plant species and Hooker's latest anniversary address to the Royal Society.
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The Genesis and Migrations of Plants . Nature 20, 257–258 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020257a0
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