Fossil Plants
A Text-Book for Students of Botany and Geology

The standard volumes on palaeobotany which synthesised earlier work and included new research, first published between 1898 and 1919.

A. C. Seward (Author)

9781108015981, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 March 2011

564 pages, 191 b/w illus.
21.6 x 3.2 x 14 cm, 0.71 kg

A. C. Seward (1863–1941) was an eminent English geologist and botanist who pioneered the study of palaeobotany. After graduating from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1886 Seward was appointed a University Lecturer in Botany in 1890. In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was appointed Professor of Botany in 1906. These volumes, published to great acclaim between 1898 and 1919, provide a detailed discussion and study of an emerging science. In the early nineteenth century, research and critical literature concerning palaeobotany was scattered across disciplines. In these volumes Seward synthesised and revised this research and also included a substantial amount of new material. Furnished with concise descriptions of fossil plants, detailed figures and extensive bibliographies these volumes became the standard reference for palaeobotany well into the twentieth century. Volume 4, first published in 1919, contains systematic descriptions of fossil ginkgoales and coniferales.

40. Ginkgoales
41. Genera believed to belong to the Ginkgoales but which on the available evidence cannot be referred without hesitation to that group
42. Genera of uncertain position
43. Coniferales (recent)
44. Coniferales (fossil)
45. Coniferales (continued)
46. Coniferales (continued)
47. Coniferales (continued)
48. Coniferales (continued)
49. Coniferales (continued)
50. Coniferales incertae sedis
51. Podozamites and Nageiopsis: genera incertae sedis
52. Gnetales
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Palaeontology [RBX]