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natural products by man, and of man as affected by geographical 
distribution. And in this work field-studies in physical geography 
were the basis of practical teaching, which was afterwards illustrated 
to his classes in the field. Some of these lectures given at the Royal 
Institution are printed in the first volume of Phillips’s Geology, 
and others have been delivered at the request of the Gilchrist Trust 
in many towns in the British Isiands. Others, again, on ‘“ Physical 
Geography in relation to Public Health,” were communicated to the 
College ot State Medicine. 
Professor Seeley had for some time taken an active interest in the 
higher education of women, and in 1876 was chosen Professor of 
Geography and Geology in Queen’s College, London,’ and five years 
later succeeded to the office of Dean, on the resignation of Sir Henry 
Craik. Here under his teaching and guidance a large number of a ae 
have been trained, not only in the subjects of the curriculum, but in 
lectures on current topics of geological interest. 
On the occasion of the Jubilee of Queen’s College in 1898, on the visit 
of Queen Victoria, Prof. Seeley, as Dean, was presented to Her Majesty. 
In 1890 he was invited to the arduous duties of Lecturer on 
Geology and Mineralogy in the Royal Indian Engineering College 
at Cooper’ s Hill, and in 1891 was appointed successor to Professor 
P. M. Dunean. Here he found an earnest body of men who soon 
listened to him with an affection which grew year by year, and so 
led them on to attain a high standard of proficiency in their work. 
The Indian Government supphed him with rocks, fossils, and maps 
from India; and geological knowledge was demonstrated in the field in- 
short and in more extended excursions. Professor Seeley endeavoured 
to teach by taking his students through the methods of research, as 
distinct from giving them the results of research; and this may be the 
secret of the interest which his lectures kindied. 
It was only on the retirement of the Rey. Professor Wiltshire, 
D.Sc., from office at King’s College that the Chair of Geology 
and Miner ‘alogy was conferred on Professor Seeley in 1896. At 
this time the teaching University was getting imto work, and the 
subject which hitherto had, been a part of the course in Engineering 
in King’s College now became expanded to meet the wants of Civil 
Engineers and Mining students; while in the Faculty of Science 
complete courses, theoretical and practical, were arranged for the 
examinations of the University of London. The geological course 
which had been given in the Ladies’ Department of King’s College 
in Kensington Square for ten years was now relinquished. Excellent 
new laboratories and lecture-rooms for Geology were built in King’s 
College, and fitted with petrological and other apparatus for a modern 
school of the science and for research. 
During the ten years 1880-90, for which lectures were given for 
the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, the 
most interesting result of endeavours to secure practical work as 
a part of the course was the establishment of the London Geological 
* Queen’s College, London, was founded with the approval of Her late Majesty 
Queen Victoria, who aiways presented a scholar to the scholarship she had founded. 
