CHAPTER IX. 
STATISTICS OF FOSSIL BOTANY. 
Difference between species the ground of our Researches. Mod¬ 
ern rise of the Study. Table of Professor Goppert. Contrast 
with the present. Mr. Morris’s Table of Fossils in British 
Strata. Other Tables. Review and Conclusions. 
u -(jont nous cherchons les lettres symboliques, 
D’un passe sans memoire incertaines reliques, 
Mysteres d’un vieux monde en mysteies ecrit!” 
Lamartine. 
The measure of certainty which geolo¬ 
gical or rather palaeontological researches 
present, and much of the interest which 
attaches to them after the first impulse of 
uninstructed wonder has subsided, are 
owing to our being able to affirm the agree¬ 
ments and differences between species an¬ 
cient and modern. The same laws have 
prevailed at all periods of life of which we 
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