Education Regulations: Burying Schools in Paperwork: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...was not found in -ifi-, It is possible that it originates from some marine deposit into which the wood had been brought by ocean currents from more southern latitudes. But a Dadoxylon from the Triassic of Spitsbergen also shows only slight Indications of annual rings (Gothan, loc clt.). A G. Nathorst, Paltiobotanischo Mitteilungen, 1. Ptcudocycat, eine neue Cycadophytengattung aus den Cenomanen Kreldeablagerungen Grdnlands Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 62, No. & Stockholm, 1907. Id., Uber die Resteelnes Brotfruchtbaumes, Artocarput Dicktoni, n. sp., aus den Cenomanen Kreldeablagerungen QrOnlands Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 24, No. 1; Stockholm, 1890. In relation to the present problems, the Tertiary floras are undoubtedly the most important, and for this reason I will enter into the subject in some detail. But the materials are so wonderfully rich that I shall have to restrict myself to giving some examples indicating the nature of the beds containing the Tertiary plants in Spitsbergen, Iceland, and Greenland. More especially, I shall recall that they are found at 79 of north latitude in Spitsbergen; on the east joast of Greenland between 74 and 75, and on the west coast between 69 and 73; at Lady Franklin Bay, in Grinnell Land (81 42); in Ellesmere Land between 77 and 78; on the River Mackenzie at 65; in Alaska south of 60 (and therefore outside the Polar Circle); and, lastly, in the islands of New Siberia (75). Iceland, it is true, is outside the Polar Circle, but nevertheless its Tertiary flora may be included in this consideration. The Tertiary formations of Spitsbergen, which have a thickness of perhaps 1,200 meters or thereabout, contain fossil plants and seams of...