Note AE — Chapter V
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The organism here referred to has been since slit by the lapidary, and the sections carefully examined. It proves to be unequivocally a true wood of the coniferous class. The following is the decision regarding it of Mr. William Nicol, of Edinburgh, confessedly one of our highest living authorities in that division of fossil botany which takes cognizance of the internal structure cf lignites, and decides from their anatomy their race and family:—