ANTARCTIC FOSSIL FLORA.
—: » — SCIENTIFIC VALUE. (By; Tolcsrajih—Press Association—GopyriShU dice. October 20, 11.58\p.m.) London, October 20. Mr. R. Newell Arbor, of Cambridge, writing to "The Times," expresses the hope that the section of fossil pinetroe retained by -Professoi David will provo a more certain specimen oi fossil flora than those brought home by the members of tho Discovery expedition. Ha adds that Professor Nafhorst, of Stockholm, is publishing a paper dealing with the lower oolitx floras discorered by the Swedish Antdfctic or pedition. These bear an extraordinary resertblncco to the lower Oolite flora' of. the Yorkshire . const. . [Oolite is a granular limostone, which give; tho name to an important series of fossiliforoui rocks divided into upper, middle, and lowci oolite.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 643, 21 October 1909, Page 7
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119ANTARCTIC FOSSIL FLORA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 643, 21 October 1909, Page 7
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