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Excerpt from The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns: Archegoniatae Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged
The last ten years have been especially noteworthy, not only for the number of investigations upon the Archegoniates, but for the extension of our knowledge to many forms which were hitherto but very imperfectly known. These results have come from two sources: first, the extension of the field of research to the Tropics, through the establishment there of experiment-stations and properly equipped laboratories in connection with botanical gardens; second, the advances in histological methods, especially the use of the microtome in embryological studies, which have made possible the accurate determination of many important structural details hitherto but very unsatisfactorily made out. The application of these more exact methods of research have made necessary, also, a careful review of the results of earlier investigations, and the correction of mistakes due to imperfect manipulations.
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