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CONCLUSION. 
In the brief time at my disposal I have attempted to 
pass in rapid review some of the outstanding features of the 
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ed them down to us. ‘This I have done purposely to empha- 
aize the fact—too often overlooked by those absorbed in the 
investigation of recent plants—that the vegetation we see 
around us at the present day is but one stage in the evolution 
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plants lies buried in the rocks of the earth’s crust. 
The rapid expansion of the domain of Botany within the 
last few decades makes it impossible for any one of us to keep 
a vigilant eye on all the newly acquired territory. While this 
tends to restrict our fields of activity, and inevitably deprives 
us of a certain width of outlook it has, let us hope, brought a 
corresponding gain in a power of critical vision. But from 
comes necessary for us, lest we become permanently short- 
sighted, to lift up our eyes and cast a glance at the horizons of 
the kingdom. 
en of our own little province, occasional bird’s-eye 
vievs, divested of confusing detail, will not infrequently be of 
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past* work; in bringing out in relief lines of work that have 
borne fruit; and, above all, in striking out new paths into 
obscure and more promising fields. 
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Arber, E. A. Newell (1901). Notes on Royle’s Types of 
Fossil Plants from India, eol. Mag. dec. 4. 
Vol. 8, p. 546. 
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Brongniart, Ad. (1828). Prodrome d'une Histoire des Végétaux 
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