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I.—On some Fossil Wood from the Lower Eocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The Botanical Department of the British Museum possesses amongst its collection of fossilized vegetable remains, sliced for microscopic examination, a series of specimens of wood from Herne Bay and the Isle of Thanet. These exhibit a structure which has not hitherto been properly understood, but which proves to be quite comparable with what is to be found in some recent plants.

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References

page 241 note 1 vol. xxii., p. 762.

page 241 note 2 Proc. Geol. Asso., vol. i., p. 343.

page 242 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvi., pl. xxv. Amylaceous structure is also shown in the Fern-structures described by Renault, from Autun (Carboniferous), Ann. d. Sc. Nat., 1869.

page 242 note 2 On a New Variety of Vascular Tissue found in a Fossil Wood from the London Clay, pp. 16–18. (1844.)

page 243 note 1 1686, vol. i.

page 243 note 2 Prof. Van Heurck, informs me that this paper, signed “von einem Ungenannten,” was written by Mdlle. la baronne Hennine von Reiehenbach. See, for an abstract, Ray Soc. Rep., 1849, p. 237.

page 243 note 3 See Ray Soc. Rep., 1849, pp. 26, 27. Mohl found Tylose in Palms; the structure is therefore not peculiar to Dicotyledons.

page 243 note 4 Sachs, Lehrbuch d. Bot., 1870, p. 27, calls them Tullen.