THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
NEWirsehicon “DECADE SV. “VOR. IV. 
No. VI.—JUNE, 1907. 
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I.—Emivenr Livine Grotosists: 
Prorressor H. G. Suetny, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.8., F.R.G.S. ; 
Professor of Geology, Geography, and Mineralogy, King’s Colleze, London; Dean 
of Queen’s College, London; Corr. Memb. Inst. Imp. Reg., Geol. Vindob., 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Soc. Phil. Ebor., Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mosq. Soc., 
Senckenb. Natur. Gesells. Frankf.; Corr. Hon. Memb. §. African Phil. Soe. ; 
Memb. Corr. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersburg. 
QWIDE A PORTRAITS “PAAR, XC) 
** The story of our life from year to year.” 
N presenting to our readers a brief notice of the life and work of 
f_ Professor Seeley, one of the most eminent of Vertebrate Palseon- 
tologists, we feel that we are offering but a scant tribute to one who 
has for more than thirty years occupied a leading position in the world 
of science. He is not only an accomplished teacher in Geology and 
the allied sciences.in the University of London, but has long been 
recognized as a distinguished worker in the fields of Zoology and 
Comparative Anatomy. His investigations into the Fossil Reptilia of 
the Secondary period, and especially his remarkable researches in the 
Anomodont Reptilia from the Trias of South Africa, are already classic 
and unsurpassed. His purely geological work in the field has also 
made substantial contributions to our knowledge of the strata in the 
South of England. 
In early years Harry Seeley found in the London Library and the 
lectures of E. W- Brayley, F.R.S., on Terrestrial Magnetism, his first 
introduction to Physical Geology. Lyell’s ‘“ Principles of Geology” 
kindled an enthusiasm for observation, which afterwards secured his 
succession to the Chair which Charles Lyell had held in King’s College 
as well as the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society, founded by 
that great master. But his scientific career appears to have been 
determined as a consequence of an old regulation, long since abrogated, 
under which he was admitted at the age of 17 asa Reader in the British 
Museum Library. His studies at first tended towards Anthropology, 
till the help of Professor Rymer Jones in Zoology, and afterwards 
of Dr. S. P. Woodward in Palzontology and of John Edward Gray in 
geographical distribution of animals, laid the foundation of a geological 
tendency, which was developed by the lectures of the Professors of the 
Royal School of Mines, and matured by field-work among the strata 
of the South-Kast of England. The personal friendship of the scientific 
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