Excerpt from Devonian Floras: A Study of the Origin of Cormophyta The present memoir, which I had the advantage of reading in ms. And of fully discussing with the author, seems to me of the utmost interest. A survey of these early Floras of the land is a most useful undertaking and one much wanted at the present time, when important new discoveries have called general atten tion to the plant-life of the Devonian period. Such a survey is all the more valuable, when, as in this case, there is an under lying theory giving a definite point of View to the exposition of the facts, and animating the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.