Abstract
IN this book, Prof. Seward fulfils his promise to supplement his four volumes on fossil plants by a general review of the floras of the past, more intelligible to the general reader than the textbook. The result is an admirable treatise, which perhaps no one but Prof. Seward could have written, bringing the records of fossil plants into constant relation with the geological changes in their environment. As he says: “It is one thing to study the fossils by themselves; it is another and a more attractive thing to think of them as living plants in a real world”.
Plant Life through the Ages: a Geological and Botanical Retrospect.
By Prof. A. C. Seward. Pp. xxi + 601. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1931.) 30s. net.
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S., D. Plant Life through the Ages: a Geological and Botanical Retrospect . Nature 128, 559–562 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128559a0
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