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the Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock ; to Mr. James Bennie, Edin- 

 burgh, and Mr. John Young, F.G.S., Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, 

 and to many other botanical and geological friends. 



In dealing with Fossil Botany perhaps one of the most difficult 

 branches of Palaeontology I have adopted the views which appear to 

 me to be supported by the most satisfactory evidence, but in a branch 

 of Natural History, where new discoveries are being made almost 

 daily, I of course reserve to myself the right of altering or modifying 

 them, as future investigations may show where I have erred or been 

 misled. 



E. KIDSTON. 



24, VICTORIA PLACE, STIRLING, N.B., 

 January 1st, 1886. 



