Measurement as a Means of Identifying Fossil Pollen

Abstract

In most places where pollen analysis is pursued more and more species have in recent years been included in pollen counting, and simultaneously the requirements as to the reliability and precision of identification - and the methods of identification - have of course become increasingly stringent. As is only natural with pollen analysis as a young science, there are unfortunately no tables or keys even approximately comprising or distinguishing between all the species encountered in ordinary pollen counting, and probably many years will elapse before tables of this kind are available, if ever they will be.