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fossilis arctica" appeared in 1869, the second in 1871, and the remaining 

 five at intervals of about two years, the seventh and last coming out 

 in the year of the author's death. With the exception of the first vol- 

 ume, this colossal work consists entirely of a compilation of more or less 

 independent memoirs, which were published as fast as prepared in vari- 

 ous scientific periodicals in several languages, and which are merely put 

 together into volumes of convenient thickness. Each memoir has its 

 own independent pagination, generally that of the volume of Transac- 

 tions in which it originally appeared, all of which renders it very incon- 

 venient for consultation, but cannot detract from its great value as a 

 reservoir of facts. 



Bunhury. — It may be doubtful whether the paleobotanical works of Sir 

 Charles Bunbury are of sufficient importance to entitle him to enumer- 

 ation among the principal cultivators of that science, but they have cer- 

 tainly been quite numerous and covered a wide range of subjects, both 

 geographically and botanically. He began by elaborating certain ma- 

 terial from the United States" and the British provinces,^" collected by Sir 

 Charles Lyell and Dr. Dawson, and was the first to recognize the merits 

 of the views of the latter respecting the fossils known as ISternbergia from 

 the coal fields of Sydney. But he also worked up material from France, 

 Portugal, Madeira, and India, as well as from Yorkshire and other parts 

 of England. His investigations have been chiefly confined to carbon- 

 iferous fossils, but in a quite recent work^' he has published some inter- 

 esting views on the subject of nervation which may prove of value. 



17. Massalongo. — Abramo Massalongo, the first of the Italian school 

 of paleototanists whose work claims our attention here, commenced pub- 

 lishing in 1850,^^ and continued with great activity until 1861. He con- 

 fined his investigations almost exclusively to material from his own 

 country, and contributed more to the elucidation of the fossil floras of 

 Italy than any other author. The number of his papers is very large, 

 considering the comparatively short period during which he was per- 

 mitted to work, and an unusually large percentage of them are mono- 

 graphs of considerable size. His greatest work, for which Scarabelli 

 contributed the stratigraphioal part, was his "Studii sulla flora fossile 

 e geologia stratigraphica del Senigalliese," Imola, 1859, but of which 



|« On some remarkaljle Fossil Ferns from Froatburg, Md., collected by Mr. Lyell. 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. See, 1846, Vol. II, pp. 82-91. Observations on the Fossil Plants of 

 the Coal Field of Tuscaloosa, Ala., etc. Silliman's Journal, 1846, pp. 228-233. Descrip- 

 tion of Fossil Plants from the Coal Field near Richmond, Va., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 1847, Vol. Ill, pp. 281-288. 



2» Notes on some Fossil Plants, communicated by Mr. Dawson, from Nova Scotia. 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1846, Vol. II, pp. 136-139. On Fossil Plants from the Coal 

 Formation of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Ihid., 1847, Vol. III., pp. 433-428, and nu- 

 merou s similar memoirs. 



2i Botanical Fragments. Loudon, 1883. 



22 See his Schizzo geognostico sulla Valle di Progno (Preludium Florae fossilis Bol- 

 censis), Verona, 1850. CoUett. dell' Adige, 14 sett., 1850. 



