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Excerpt from The Geography of Plants In the preface Dr. Marcel Hardy's Introduction to Plant Geography, Professor Herbertson wrote, 'it will be followed by a more advanced book.' This 'more advanced book' is the volume now published. Many causes have contributed to delay its appearance: the death of Professor Herbertson; the departure of the author to South America; the War and its aftermath, which have rendered so extremely difficult everything connected with the publication of books: but the proofs have been fully revised, and many new photographs have been inserted. It may be taken as in some sort an expansion of Part III of the earlier work, since the slight 'survey of the continents' given there has served as the plan for the new book, and has been expanded into a full discussion of the conditions in which plants nourish, and their distribution in the great geographical divisions of the earth. 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.