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RefNoEC/1898/15
Previous numbersCert XII, 73
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TitleSeward, Sir Albert Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationUniversity Lecturer in Botany, Cambridge. He has made extended researches in Fossil Botany, the results of which nhave been published in a series of papers and works, of which the following may be specified: - 'That on the Wealden Flora gives, for the first time, a critical and comprehensive view of the vegetation of this important geological period, and in many respects enlarges and modifies our previous knowledge of the subject: 'On 'Calamotes undulatus'' (Geol Mag, vol v, 1888); 'Notes on 'Lomatophoios macrolepidotus', Goldg' (Proc Camb Phil Soc, vol vii, 1890); 'Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate' (Sedgwick Prize Essay for 1892); 'On the Genus 'Myeloxylon, Brong' (Annals of Botany, vol vii, 1893); 'On 'Rachiopteris Williamsoni', sp nov, a new Fern from the Coal Measures' (ibid, vol viii, 1894); 'Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Nat Hist)'; 'The Wealden Flora, Part I, 'Thallophyta' to 'Pteridophyta'. Part II, Gymnospermae' (1894-1895).
ProposersD H Scott; Joseph D Hooker; William Henry Flower; H Woodward; W T Thiselton Dyer; I B Balfour; F O Bower; S H Vines; H M Ward; J R Green; F Darwin
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Seward, Sir Albert Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA5951Seward; Sir; Albert Charles (1863 - 1941)1863 - 1941
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