PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION 



THIS translation of Count Solms-Laubach's Introduction to Fossil 

 Botany brings within reach of English readers the only critical digest 

 as yet published of our present knowledge of Fossil Plants from the point 

 of view of Botanical Morphology, and is an important addition to the 

 series of standard botanical works issued by the Clarendon Press. 



I have to thank the author for help in several points concerning the 

 translation, and with his consent some corrections of statement have been 

 made in the English text. To Professor W. C. Williamson I am indebted 

 for some of these, and I have to acknowledge aid in the rendering of 

 geological terminology and nomenclature from Dr. Archibald Geikie and 

 Professor F. Rudler. 



I. B. B. 



EDINBURGH, 1891. 



