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sphere we have records as far apart as Spitzbergen (8o° North), 

 on the one hand, and Cape Colony (30 South) on the other, with 

 several species of both the Arancaria and the Agatliis type in 

 Europe. 



The absence of Asiatic Cretaceous records is to be considered 

 due to the lack of knowledge of Cretaceous plant beds on that 

 continent, and not as indicative of the absence of the Araucarieae 

 at that time. 



While the distribution of the recent forms might seem to be an 

 argument for the former existence of Antarctic land connections 



Figure 2. Sketch map, showing the recorded occurrences of the Araucanae 

 during the Cretaceous. 



and intermigrations, a glance at the fossil record shows that this 

 is not the true explanation of their present occurrence, nor does it, 

 on the other hand, in the least weaken the probability that there 

 was such an Antarctic continent or archipelago, a view with which 

 the writer is in thorough sympathy. In the case of the Arauca- 

 rieae, however, the records show that a once cosmopolitan group 

 has gradually become extinct in the intervening areas until its 

 present restricted habitats are all that remain of a once world-wide 

 dominance, a dominance which was probably reached during the 



Mesozoi 



As a corollary, we would assume that the group is 



still 



