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XIX.—On Lepidophloios Scottii (a new species from the Calciferous Sandstone series at Pettycur, Fife)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Wm. T. Gordon
Affiliation:
Carnegie Research Scholar in Geology, Edinburgh University

Extract

As Carnegie Research Scholar in Geology under Professor James Geikie, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., at Edinburgh University, I have entered upon a systematic examination of fossil plants from Pettycur, Fife. Though many plants have been described from this locality, nothing systematic, as far as I know, has ever before been attempted. The main objects of this research are to endeavour to connect the various strobili obtained at the locality in question with the stems on which they were borne; to describe any new species met with, and to give some account of the mode of occurrence of the material in which the plants are enclosed. Some of these objects have already been attained, but others will require further study to decide.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1909

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