JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVI March, 1915 No. 183 
A NEW FOSSIL SPECIES OF FICUS AND ITS CLIMATIC 
SIGNIFICANCE! 
With Plates CLII and CLIII 
A little more than a year ago the writer received from Mr. R. W. 
Brock, Director of the Canada Geological ae a communica- 
tion from which the following is an abstra 
I have received from Dr. [S. J.] 5 Schofield, one e of our field 
silts exposed in the Kootenay Valley. These are the first plant 
remains from the Pleistocene of British Columbia. Would you 
be free to, and would you care to examine these foe us?” 
The collection was forwarded, examined, and a preliminary 
tion and discussion in advance final report upon the col- 
lection as a facts in connection with it were sub- 
mitted Brock, who courteously wrote in reply as follows 
the fruiting branch of Ficus through any medium you may 
desire.” 
It was apparent that this specimen, aside from the fact that it 
ee unusual biologic interest, was also of significance as an 
index of the climatic conditions which must have existed at the 
1 Read before the Soames eee ty of America, Philadelphia Meeting, 
December 31, 1914, and presented at the Conference of the Staff and Students of 
the New Yo 7 
? Canada Geol. Survey, Dept. Mines, Summary Rept., 1913: 133-135. 914. 
[Journal for February (16: 33-42) was issued rébiiary. 28, 1915] 
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