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Authorised form of nameSewell; Robert Beresford Seymour (1880 - 1964)
Dates1880 - 1964
Date of birth05 March 1880
Date of death11/02/1964
ActivityEducation:
ScD (Cantab)
Career:
Lieut-Colonel, IMS; Director, Zoological Survey of India, and Chairman of the Indian Museum, Calcutta; President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; President of the Indian Science Congress.
Honours:
CIE 1933
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1934
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1965 vol 11 pp 147-155, plate, by C F A Pantin
CodeNA1814
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1934/13Sewell, Robert Beresford Seymour: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/66/160Referee's report by Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell, on a paper 'The Egyptian exploration of the Red Sea' by A F Mohamed[September 1939]
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