244 Eminent Living Geologists— 
Field Class. Professor Seeley has conducted excursions week by 
week with this Society of old pupils for twenty-one years, in the 
summer. It has endeavoured to provide for the whole of London 
a knowledge of the rocks, as the reward for each student’s personal 
observation. Some record of the earlier teaching is preserved in the 
‘¢ Handbook of the London Geological Field Class,” 1890. And now 
it has borne fruit in the recognition by the University of London of 
Field Teaching as a necessary condition for graduation in Geology. 
Although strongly opposed in earlier years to all examinations 
which were not co-ordinated with teaching, he has taken part in the 
work of the University of London as a member of Boards of Studies in 
Geology, Civil Engineering, Geography, Mining, Agriculture, and 
Zoology, and has acted as Examiner in Geology and Zoology. 
It is impossible to separate a life’s work of teaching from the 
acquisition of new knowledge which could be imparted. Many of 
the British strata were followed by Seeley along their outcrops in the 
manner of the early masters, and enough done in the North of France, 
Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Russia to impart. 
a distinct tone to his interpretations of many aspects of the science. 
An accomplished paleeontologist, he has used every available museum 
to trace the variations in the faunas of the geological deposits as they 
extend through Europe, as a means of estimating their relation to the 
fossils of more distant regions. From about 1875, when he visited 
the petrological districts of the Southern Eifel, the Siebengebirge, and 
Eastern Rhine, and worked over the collections at Heidelberg, began 
the accumulation of that experience in petrology which took practical 
form in the new edition of Phillips’s Geology, 1884, undertaken with 
Robert Etheridge as a personal tribute to the work of a former King’s. 
College Professor of Geology. 
Studies were limited by exigencies of time. The fossil Reptiles 
which had led to work at Cambridge took him in after years far 
afield. The Pterodactyles and other types were sought out in the 
Highlands of Bavaria, and in the Museums of Munich, to which 
Zittel gave exceptional facilities, Bonn, Tiibingen, Stuttgart, Banz, 
and Haarlem. ‘lhe Cretaceous reptiles of Gosau led to a residence 
for some time in Vienna, in the study of remains submitted to him by 
Professor Suess which were obtained in almost as complete dissociation 
as those of the Cambridge Greensand. He worked through all the 
Lias and Trias reptiles in the museums of Germany. 
In 1889 Professor Seeley conceived the idea of examining the 
evidence of the organization of the Anomodonts. The Royal Society 
supported him, not only with a grant of £200 towards the expenses. 
of travel, but by more important recommendations through depart- 
ments of the Government. ‘The results of a first visit to Russia 
appeared in a reconstruction of Dewterosawrus and Rhopalodon. In 
the summer of the same year he visited Cape Colony, but most of the 
important specimens collected had already been sent to Sir Richard 
Owen, and it was only by traversing the colony that the geological 
horizons of the fossils could be determined, and new materials found. 
His effort was aided by the co-operation of Mr. Thomas Ban, 
Irrigation Officer, who was deputed by Sir Gordon Sprigg to. 
accompany him. 
