Abstract
THIS admirable essay is really a digest of the opinions of the principal writers on fossil plants, so far as they throw light on geological climates, and a critical résumé of the subject up to date. It should be read by all who prefer to deduce the relative temperatures of various latitudes in the past from such solid data as assemblages of ferns, cycads, and conifers, the ancestors of living genera and species, rather than from utterly extinct belemnites, ammonites, and saurians, of whose habits little can ever be known, and which might have drifted far out of their temperature zones by warm and cold sea-currents.
Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate, being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for the Year 1892.
By A. C. Seward, Lecturer in Botany in the University of Cambridge. (London: C. J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press, 1892.)
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GARDNER, J. Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate, being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for the Year 1892. Nature 47, 267–268 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047267a0
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