The Fossil Flora of Great Britain Lindley Hutton Paperback Volume 3

The Fossil Flora of Great BritainOr, Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains Found in a Fossil State in this Country\nAuthor(s): John Lindley, William Hutton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108068567, 978-1108068567\nSynopsis\nEmployed early on in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley [tel] went on to conduct important research on the orchid family and also recommended that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution. This pioneering three-volume work of palaeobotany, first published between 1831 and 1837, catalogues almost 300 species of fossil plants from the Pleistocene to the Carboniferous period. The geologist and palaeontologist William Hutton [tel], with whom Lindley collaborated, was responsible for collecting the fossil specimens from which the 230 plates were drawn. The first serious attempt at organising and interpreting the evidence of .