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services to botanical science by electing him an Associate in 1886, 

 which distinction he held until 1898, when he became a Fellow. 

 He was one of the lirst recipients of the Victoria Medal of 

 Honour in Horticulture (1897), and received the Veitch Medal 

 in 1894. 



His travels — he frequently visited the continent, particularly 

 FxMnce and Switzerland, and went twice to America — and his 

 wide reading gave his views of men and matters breadth and 

 depth, whilst an exquisitely amiable disposition added much 

 charm to his personality and won him friends wherever he went. 



[O. S.] 



Professor Harry Govier Sebley, F.E.S., who died on 

 January 8tb, 1909, had been a Eellow of the Linnean Society 

 since 1871. He was born in London on February 18th, 1839, 

 and began early to take an interest in scientific work. He soon 

 inclined towards palaeontology and geology, and became assistant 

 to Prof. Adam Sedgwick in the Woodwardian Museum, Cam- 

 bridge. While here engaged in arranging the collection of 

 fossils and in practical field-work with students, Seeley published 

 many important papers on fossils, especially on fossil reptiles, on 

 which he became an acknowledged authority. His well-known 

 small volume on ' The Ornithosauria ' was published by the Cam- 

 bridge University Press in 1870 ; and his mature views on the 

 same subject were summarised so recently as 1901 in his ' Dragons 

 of the Air : an Account of Extinct Flying Keptiles.' In 1873 

 Seeley returned to London, and began to contribute a long series 

 of papers, chiefly on fossil reptiles, to the ' Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society. Ln 1876 he published papers on 

 '• Eesemblances between the Bones of typical living Ee[)tiles and 

 the Bones of other Animals" and on " Similitudes oF the Bones 

 in the Enaliosauria " in the 'Journal' of the Linnean Society 

 (Zoology), vol. xii. In 1876 he was appointed Professor of 

 Geography in King's College, London, and Professor of Geography 

 and Geology in Queen's College, London, holding both these 

 Professorsliips until his death. From 1891 until the closing of 

 the institution, he was also Lecturer on Geology and Mineralogy 

 in the Eoyal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill ; and from 

 1896 onwards he was Professor of the same subjects at King's 

 College. Prof. Seeley also undertook much popular lecturing and 

 teaching, and was for many years one of the Gilchrist Lecturers. 

 In 1889 he obtained a grant from the Koyal Society to enable him 

 to visit South Africa and Russia to collect and study the extinct 

 Anomodont Reptiles ; and the most important results of his work 

 were published in a series of memoirs in the ' Philosopliical 

 Transactions.' He discovered and described the well-known 

 skeletons of Pariasaurns haini and Ci/nor/nathus crateronotus 

 besides many other important specimens, which are now exhibited 



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