Fetracts from Mr. Bentham’s Address, 331 
n. Mr. Carruthers 
Magazine, April and July 1869, and Journal of the Geological 
Society, August, 1869) adduced satisfactory evidence of the 
close affinity of Sigillaria and the allied genera of the coal- 
ni with the living Lycopodiaceex, formerly suggested by 
r. Hooker; but, as he informs me, no connecting links, no 
specimens, indeed, of the whole Order, have as yet been found 
m any of the intermediate cretaceous or tertiary deposits. 
Among the latter, the presence of numerous vegetable types, 
to which we may plausibly refer as to the ancestors of living 
races, is established upon unimpeachable data; but I have been 
unable to find that a single case of authentic pedigree, as suc- 
