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w published, which are invaluable to 
Pey a student and demonstrator; put from whieh the school-boy recoils, who would not 
y's ht n which to hang ideas, facts, and hard 
Tames, To school-boys, skeletons have often a ange Na eea he and upon the structure of 
% these and the Saaacation of te vertebrata much depends. What boy that had ever been 
; „Or eile ve a hedgehog could milk cows, as 
L Ven tol 1 hany boys at cious and Suffolk, as elsewher re, do believe implicitly? A series of 
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cimen cupying some 5,800 fèet or wall-space, vor giv e at a glance a oon 
` nected and Da., ptt view of tł 
_ kingdom; it would stand in ne e eame Felation to a complete museum and Systema Naturæ » a 
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undistinguishable details, 
om Hooker then Saes upon his favorite study, botany, closing with 
ee of Darwini ism: 




ir been made during the pek = 
_ tartare been in the departments of Fossil bat va and “Vegetable Phy: slology. Be the 


for 
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i of the veg 
~ table kingdom, Why plants should ha ve been so odh n more vo lavialils preserved poem ng these 
if “sua panne some of the intervening or earlier sperms we do not rightly koowi but the 

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tion of the geological record. Our knowledge of coal plants, which since the days of Stern- 
‘berg, Brongniart, and Lindley and Hutton, has been chiefly advanced by GUppart and Unger 
; 
; 

1 Om the Eea and by sca in Canada, has received very im inpovtaat accessions of late 
i through t unt te energy f Mr. Binuey, of Man chester, who has dévoted near arly thirty 
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and 
N “ Passing to t the Tri Tory the labors m “onti ne E T go a and Strozzi 
“eater f Massolonghi inI all, of Heer in Switze eg 
; b pR nts; and if the 
— of the afiinities of the rnini are trustworthy, wA ae the persistence 
the rarity of others 






















these. Her ere, bor h val ti Tayao the 
on ateri. ti or deter armining the affinities of the vast majority of these tertiary 
‘Dlants are oe sted leaves, sam unlike the bones of sgar animals and sie shells of 

e, the leaves of plants of different natural families and of different prea 
er to such a degree that, in the case of recent flowers, every botanist ani 
as a most treacherous tera to aftinity. e structural characters which are 
mt 
Fa to ber found in the fosilia; pa yet t it is from them exclusively that the position of 
sinod 1 

he miocene ani pliocene Floras. especially, are of the highest value and 

g vey Tracy coal-be 
ther. a form worthy of their value and of their author’s merit we are indebted to the 
‘Rations; ality of Miss Burdett Coutts) are founded onas sufficient number of ab see wes determi- 

and his more recent Flora Foss iary 
E n latter work Professor eee shows, in appar ese unassailable bids that 
Austrian, American, and Asiatic trees panera durin; miocene Sues celand, 
sft q: i rees could 

oe 
verie. 
Annual Report of the Regents of the University of New York. 8vo, pp- 
1867. With twenty-five plates. 
