Fossil Plants. A Text Book for Students of Botany and Geology. Volume 4. 1919. (Reprint 2011). (Cambridge Library Collection, Earth Science). 191 illus. 564 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

A. C. Seward (1863-1941) was an English geologist andbotanist who pioneered the study of palaeobotany. 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.