38 PBOCEEDINOS OF THE 



Botany, as it advances by strides under a study of its fossil repre- 

 Bentativcs." 



It is pleasant to a student of fossil plants to remember with 

 what warm and generous sympathy the great leader of botanical 

 science followed the recent jirogrcss of the subject. 



Hooker's definite contributions to our knowledge of palajobotany 

 were valuable, though limited in extent, owing to the small part 

 of his time that he was free to devote to such investigations. His 

 influence as a severe but just and friendly cricic was of the greatest 

 importance, and his warnings against the many pitfalls of the 

 subject, though they may have discouraged some, are in reality 

 entirely wholesome, and are no less needed today than at the time 

 they were given. 



References to Papers hij Sir Joseph Dalton lloolcer. 



1842. On the Examination of some Fossil Wood from Macquarie 



Plains, Tasmania. Tasmanian Journ. Xat. Sci. vol. i. 1842, 



p. 24. 

 1846. Note on a Fossil Plant from the Fish River, South Africa. 



Trans. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. 184G, p. 227. 

 1848. On the Vegetation of the Carboniferous Period, as compared 



with that of the present day. Mem. Geol. Survey, vol. ii. 



1848, p. 387. 

 1848. On some Peculiarities in the Structure of Stiymaria. Ibid. 



p. 431. 

 1848. Remarks on the Structure and Affinities of some Lepidostrohi. 



Ibid. p. 440. 

 1853. (J. D. H. & H. E. Strickland.)— On the Distribution and 



Organic Contents of the " Ludlow Pone Bed " iu the 



districts of Woolhope and May Hill, with a Xote on the 



seed-like bodies found in it. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 



vol. ix. 1853, p. 8. 



1853. Note on the Fossil Plants from the Shetlands. Ibid. p. 49. 



1854. Note on the Fossil Plants from Reading. Ibid. vol. x. p. 163. 



1854. On a new species of Volkmannia ( V. Morrisii). Ibid. 



vol. X. p. 199. 



1855. (J. D. H. & E. W. BiNNEY.)— On the Structure of certain 



Limestone Nodules enclosed in seams of Bitumiuous Coal, 



with a description of some Trigonocarpons contained in 



them. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. vol. 145. 1855, p. 149. 

 1854. On some minute Seed-vessels {CarpoJithcs oridiim, Brongn.) 



from the Eocene Beds of Lewisham. Quart. Journ. Geol. 



Soc. vol. xi. 1855, p. 562. 

 1854. On some small Seed-vessels (Folliculites mini(lidt(S, Bronn) 



from the Bovey Tracey Coal. Ibid. p. 566. 

 1868. Presidential Address to the British Association for the 



Advancement of Science. Norwich, 1868. 

 1877. Presidential Address to the Royal Society, 1877. Proc. R. 



Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 427. 



