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small reptile, Neusticosaurus, from the Trias of Germany, which appeared to 
be intermediate between primitive land-reptiles and the Plesiosauria. 
For many years Prof. Seeley had followed closely the researches of 
Sir Richard Owen on the Karoo reptiles from South Africa, which 
exhibited so remarkable an approach to the Mammalia, and, when the 
veteran paleontologist ceased work, he decided to continue it. In 1889, 
with the aid of the Royal Society's Government Grant Committee, he 
examined the collections of Anomodont reptiles in St. Petersburg and 
Moscow, and subsequently visited Cape Colony to make further collections. 
He traversed the Karoo with Mr. Thomas Bain, and succeeded in dis- 
covering the nearly complete skeletons of Pariasaurus and Cynognathus, 
and numerous other specimens, which he afterwards described and presented 
to the British Museum (Natural History). He also obtained important 
specimens for study from Mr. Alfred Brown, Dr. Atherstone, and 
Dr. Kannemeyer, who continued to correspond and provide material for 
his researches. Most of the results of this work were published in the 
‘Philosophical Transactions’ between the years 1889 and 1895, and in the 
journals of the Geological and Zoological Societies during later years. The 
Pariasaurians were shown to make as close an approach to the Labyrintho- 
donts as the Theriodonts to the Mammalia ; numerous new types were made 
known, and their osteology was described in detail; while important general 
results followed, with suggestions for a more exact classification of the 
primitive groups represented. These exhaustive researches led Prof. Seeley 
to recognise an Anomodont reptile from the Bunter Sandstone near Basle, — 
Switzerland, which he described under the name of Aristodesmus ruetimeyert. 
After his early experiences in interpreting the reptilian bones from the 
Cambridge Greensand, rare fragmentary fossils always had a_ special 
fascination for Prof. Seeley, and a large proportion of his smaller papers 
deal with such specimens. Among these may be specially mentioned his 
descriptions of the bones of birds from the Cambridge Greensand (1876) and 
of two Mammalian bones from the Stonesfield Slate (1879). He pointed 
out the resemblances of the Cretaceous bird-bones to those of the existing 
Colymbus, and he regarded the Stonesfield limb-bones as belonging to a 
generalised Marsupial. 
Prof. Seeley was a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological, Zoological, and Royal 
Geographical Societies, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 
1879. He was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society in 1885. 
He was elected a Foreign Member of the Philadelphia Academy in 1878, of 
the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna in 1880, of the Imperial Society 
of Naturalists of Moscow in 1889, of the Senckenberg Natural History Society 
of Frankfurt in 1895, a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences, St. Petersburg, in 1902, and a Fellow of King’s College, London, in 
1905. He was also a member of the Athenzeum Club. 
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