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proving, by numerous specimens of leaves, fruits, and even 
flowers, some of them still 2 to the branches, which I 
— myself the Hi pein of inspecting last summer under the 
riendly guidance of the distihontahed Professor Smet This 
this There are in the tertiary deposits in Europe, and espe- 
cially in the earlier ones, a number of sta that look like those 
of P oe ~~“ are a distinguished feature in Austra vegeta 
on. 
This conviction, that Proteacez belonging to ——— gen- 
era were numerous in Europe in Eocene times, is im re- 
garded by paleontologists as one of the best- retired of their 
They enumerate nearly one hundred tertiary species, and 
most of them with such absolute ———- me it would seem 
disbolice in Bue Protendens, A" then examining 
into the pt of their existence. : 
From the above Soot hae tions, I — resist the opinion 
that all presumptive evidence is against European Proteacew, 
