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Authorised form of nameSeeley; Harry Govier (1839 - 1909); palaeontologist and geologist
Dates1839 - 1909
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth18 February 1839
Place of death3 Holland Park Court, Kensington, London
Date of death8 January 1909
Dates and placesBurial:
Brookwood cemetery, London, England.
Occupationpalaeontologist and geologist
Research fieldPalaeontology
Natural history
Geology
ActivityEducation: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Career:
Attended classes at the Royal School of Mines, Kensington; worked at Cambridge; moved to London (1872); Professor of Geography, King's College, Queen's College and Bedford College, London (from 1876); Lecturer on Geology and Physiology, Dulwich College; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, King's College, London (1896-1905)
Memberships:
FLS; FGS; FZS; FRGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1879
Age at election40
ProposerWilliam Carruthers; Josh Prestwich; John Whitaker Hulke; Henry Woodward; Andrew Leith Adams; Thomas Rupert Jones; Robert Etheridge; Henry William Bristow; St George Mivart; David Thomas Ansted
William Henry Leighton Russell; Thomas Spratt; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Richard Owen; William Kitchen Parker; Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther; Alfred Newton; George Allman; William Benjamin Carpenter
Royal Society activityLectures:
Croonian 1887
RelationshipsParents: Richard Hovill Seeley, goldsmith, and his second wife Mary Govier.
Spouse: Eleonora Jane, daughter of William Mitchell of Bath (1872)
Son-in-law: Arthur Smith Woodward (FRS 1901)
Uncle: Robert Benton Seeley
Cousin: John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian.
Published worksRCN R63158
RCN 48428
RCN R63160
General contextCategorised dinosaurs in two taxa: Saurischia and the Ornithischia, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints.
Advocated the expansion of opportunities in higher education, particularly for women.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1910-1911 vol 83 pp xv-xvii signed by A S W
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/93884993
Royal Society codeNA6493
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NLB/2/117Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society24 January 1888
NLB/2/49Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1887
NLB/2/251Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley13 March 1888
NLB/2/415Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Henry Flower, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1888
NLB/2/505Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]23 July 1888
NLB/1/737Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 November 1887
NLB/1/574Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 September 1887
NLB/1/658Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 October 1887
NLB/1/709Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1887
NLB/2/845Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 November 1888
NLB/2/844Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Miss [Gertrude] Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, S.W.21 November 1888
NLB/2/826Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1888
NLB/4/1168Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society3 February 1891
NLB/3/218Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 April 1889
NLB/3/525Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society4 July 1889
NLB/6/8Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1892
NLB/6/74Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1892
NLB/6/91Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society29 February 1892
NLB/6/18Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings, 172 Strand10 February 1892
NLB/3/776Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden7 October 1889
NLB/6/862Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 July 1892
NLB/6/965Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden26 September 1892
NLB/6/44Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings18 February 1892
NLB/3/852Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden26 October 1889
NLB/6/329Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society12 April 1892
NLB/6/393Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W H Wesley29 April 1892
NLB/6/779Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 July 1892
NLB/6/342Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Herry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 April 1892
NLB/6/392Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1892
NLB/10/251Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings, 172 Strand31 October 1894
NLB/3/1107Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society13 January 1890
NLB/7/6Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley10 November 1892
NLB/6/827Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], President, Royal Society20 July 1892
NLB/5/296Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1891
NLB/6/1020Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1892
NLB/5/257Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 April 1891
NLB/6/977Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster27 September 1892
NLB/6/1047Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 October 1892
NLB/10/385Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society16 November 1894
NLB/7/20Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Arthur Smith Woodward, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W.12 November 1892
NLB/6/1174Copy letter from Michael Foser, to Sir William Henry Flower, Natural History Musuem, S.W.5 November 1892
NLB/6/1166Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley5 November 1892
NLB/5/542Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]8 July 1891
NLB/5/714Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society23 September 1891
NLB/5/704Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Evans, [Treasurer, Royal Society]21 September 1891
NLB/5/679Copy letter from A H White, to the Cambridge Engraving Company4 September 1891
NLB/5/752Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society5 October 1891
NLB/7/471Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir William Henry Flower, British Museum (Natural History)23 February 1893
NLB/7/441Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society17 February 1893
NLB/5/968Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1891
NLB/7/970Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings12 June 1893
NLB/7/1076Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 June 1893
NLB/8/31Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings3 July 1893
NLB/5/1165Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Miss Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, S.W.19 January 1892
NLB/5/1163Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to F H Wesley19 January 1892
NLB/5/1205Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1892
NLB/10/123Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society3 October 1894
NLB/10/23Copy letter from A H White, to Miss Gertrude Woodward31 August 1894
NLB/8/297Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, [Treasurer, Royal Society]22 September 1893
NLB/10/142Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings6 October 1894
NLB/10/1029Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[27] March 1895
NLB/10/359Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1894
NLB/10/671Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company18 January 1895
NLB/10/696Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Gardens, E.C.22 January 1895
NLB/9/49Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 March 1894
NLB/9/988Copy letter from Theodore E James, to the Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society3 August 1894
NLB/9/78Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 March 1894
NLB/11/395Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society21 June 1895
NLB/9/306Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 April 1894
NLB/9/380Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Woodward8 May 1894
NLB/9/423Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Miss Gertrude Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, S.W.17 May 1894
NLB/9/871Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1894
NLB/9/999Copy letter from A H White, to Dr Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society15 August 1894
NLB/13/292Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1896
NLB/13/821Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Sissmore Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society, 9 Park Crescent, W.2 December 1896
NLB/13/249Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1896
NLB/13/207Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society2 July 1896
NLB/12/28Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 November 1895
MC/21/561Letter from [Harry Govier] Seeley, 3 Holland Park Court, to Sir Archibald Geikie14 November 1906
NLB/20/452Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1900
NLB/20/291Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society13 March 1900
NLB/30/493Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society 1 April 1905
NLB/32/535Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]28 March 1906
NLB/38/180Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1908
NLB/39/121Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Harry] G [Govier] Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1908
NLB/39/309Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Harry] G [Govier] Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1908
NLB/39/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons14 January 1909
NLB/39/458Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr [Arthur] Smith Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society23 January 1909
NLB/39/371Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Whitaker, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1909
NLB/39/370Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Secretary, Kings College12 January 1909
RR/9/51Referee's report by Harry Govier Seeley, on a paper 'An attempt at a complete osteology of hypsilophodon foxii; a British Wealden dinosaur' by John Whitaker Hulke18 March 1882
NLB/2/477Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 July 1888
RR/10/223Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—VI. On the anomodont reptilia and their allies' by Harry Govier Seeley21 July 1888
RR/11/91Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.–VII. Further observations on pareiasaurus' by Harry Govier Seeley2 July 1891
RR/12/236Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 5. On the skeleton new Cynodontia from the Karroo rocks' by Harry Govier Seeley26 March 1894
RR/10/84Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on the Croonian Lecture 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil Reptilia.—II. On Pareiasaurus bombidens (Owen), and the significance of its affinities to Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals' by Harry Govier Seeley24 May 1887
RR/11/90Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.–VII. Further observations on pareiasaurus' by Harry Govier Seeley8 June 1891
NLB/2/601Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Miss Woodward, 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea24 September 1888
NLB/2/521Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society26 July 1888
NLB/2/412Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Whitaker Hulke, Fellow of the Royal Society8 June 1888
NLB/2/319Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 April 1888
NLB/3/115Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Right Honorable Lord Knutsford16 March 1889
NLB/3/1092Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society9 January 1890
NLB/8/272Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society18 September 1893
NLB/9/420Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society17 May 1894
NLB/8/1024Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 February 1894
NLB/11/417Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir William Henry Flower, Fellow of the Royal Society25 June 1895
NLB/9/930Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1894
NLB/12/7Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society16 November 1895
RR/9/364Referee's report by Harry Govier Seeley, on a paper 'Supplementary note on Polacanthus Foxii, describing the dorsal and some parts of the endoskeleton imperfectly known in 1881' by John Whitaker Hulke11 January 1887
RR/10/85Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on the Croonian Lecture 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil Reptilia.—II. On Pareiasaurus bombidens (Owen), and the significance of its affinities to Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals' by Harry Govier Seeley10 June 1887
RR/12/200Referee's report by Harry Govier Seeley, on a paper 'Reptiles from the Elgin sandstone.—Description of two new genera' by Edwin Tulley Newton10 February 1894
RR/12/237Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 5. On the skeleton new Cynodontia from the Karroo rocks' by Harry Govier Seeley21 April 1894
RR/12/199Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Reptiles from the Elgin sandstone.—Description of two new genera' by Edwin Tulley Newton10 February 1894
RR/10/83Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. - I. On Protoronsaurus speneri (von Meyer)' by Harry Govier Seeley21 April 1887
NLB/6New Letter Book volume 6, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration5 February 1892-9 November 1892
NLB/5/680Copy letter from A H White, to Professor Michael Foster [Secretary, Royal Society]'4 September 1891
NLB/10/33Copy letter from A H White, to Dr Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society6 September 1894
NLB/10/68Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Harry Govier Seeley, Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1894
NLB/9/258Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Henry Wesley, Royal Astronomical Society23 April 1894
RR/10/62Referee's report by Harry Govier Seeley, on a paper 'On parts of the skeleton of Meiolania platyceps (Ow.)' by Richard Owen14 June 1887
RR/10/81Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. - I. On Protoronsaurus speneri (von Meyer)' by Harry Govier Seeley11 March 1887
RR/10/86Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—III. On parts of the skeleton of a mammal from Triassic rocks of Klipfontein, Fraserberg, South Africa (Theriodesmus phylarchus, Seeley), illustrating the reptilian inheritance in the mammalian hand' by Harry Govier Seeley11 November 1887
RR/10/222Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—VI. On the anomodont reptilia and their allies' by Harry Govier Seeley13 July 1888
RR/12/238Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on two papers 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 4. On the Gomphodontia' and 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 6. Associated remains of two small skeletons from Klipfontein, Fraserburg' by Harry Govier Seeley25 July 1894
EC/1879/20Seeley, Harry Govier: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/10/82Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. - I. On Protoronsaurus speneri (von Meyer)' by Harry Govier Seeley18 March 1887
RR/10/219Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the Fossil Reptilia. IV. On a large humerus from the East Brak River, South Africa, indicating a new order of fossil animals which was more nearly intermediate between reptiles and mammals than the groups hitherto known' by Harry Govier Seeley12 June 1888
RR/13/122Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, on his paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' to the Secretary of the Royal Society7 April 1896
MC/10/80Letter from John Phillips, Oxford, to the Royal Society5 March 1874
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
AP/65/8/2Unpublished figures, humerus by Harry Govier Seeley1888
RR/10/218Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the Fossil Reptilia. IV. On a large humerus from the East Brak River, South Africa, indicating a new order of fossil animals which was more nearly intermediate between reptiles and mammals than the groups hitherto known' by Harry Govier Seeley5 May 1888
RR/13/119Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' by Harry Govier Seeley28 February 1896
RR/13/117Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' by Harry Govier Seeley1 January 1896
AP/72/2bisUnpublished paper, 'Researches on the structure, organization and classification of the fossil Reptilia: Part X. On the complete skeleton of an Anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the Bunter sandstone [Buntsandstein] of Reihen, near Basel [Switzerland], giving new evidence of the relation of the Anomodontia to the Monotremata' by H G [Harry Govier] Seeley1895
PP/11/10Paper, 'On the bone in crocodilia commonly regarded as the os pubis and its representative among extinct reptilia' by Harry Govier Seeley1887
PP/12/6/1Manuscript, 'On the nature and limits of reptilian character in mammalian teeth' by Harry Govier Seeley1888
PP/11/7/2Figures, Dinosauria bones by Harry Govier Seeley1887
PP/11/10/2Figure, 'Pelvic cartilage of Crocodilus [Crocodylus] palustris [mugger crocodile]' by Harry Govier Seeley1887
PP/12/6Paper, 'On the nature and limits of reptilian character in mammalian teeth' by Harry Govier Seeley1888
PP/12/6/2Figures, teeth by Harry Govier Seeley1888
PP/20/20Paper, 'On the shoulder girdle in Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia' by John Whitaker Hulke1892
PP/20/20/1Manuscript, 'On the shoulder girdle in Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia' by John Whitaker Hulke1892
PP/19/11Paper, 'The nature of the shoulder girdle and clavicular arch in Sauropterygia' by Harry Govier Seeley1892
PP/11/7Paper, 'On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria' by Harry Govier Seeley1887
RR/12/239Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on two papers 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 4. On the Gomphodontia' and 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., section 6. Associated remains of two small skeletons from Klipfontein, Fraserburg' by Harry Govier Seeley3 August 1894
RR/15/89Referee's report by Harry Govier Seeley, on a paper 'Extinct mammalia from Madagascar. I. Megaladapis insignis sp. n.' by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major13 March 1900
PP/22/13Paper, 'Further observations on the shoulder girdle and clavicular arch in the Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia' by Harry Govier Seeley1893
RR/10/87Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—III. On parts of the skeleton of a mammal from Triassic rocks of Klipfontein, Fraserberg, South Africa (Theriodesmus phylarchus, Seeley), illustrating the reptilian inheritance in the mammalian hand' by Harry Govier Seeley22 November 1887
RR/10/199Referee's report by Harry Govier Seeley, on a paper 'On the skull, brain, and auditory organ a new species of Pterosaurian (Scaphognathus purdoni), from the upper lias near Whitby, Yorkshire' by Edwin Tulley Newton11 April 1888
RR/10/220Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—V. On associated bones of a small anomodont reptile, keirognathus cordylus (Seeley), showing the relative dimensions of the anterior parts of the skeleton, and structure of the fore-limb and shoulder girdle' by Harry Govier Seeley5 May 1888
RR/10/221Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—V. On associated bones of a small anomodont reptile, keirognathus cordylus (Seeley), showing the relative dimensions of the anterior parts of the skeleton, and structure of the fore-limb and shoulder girdle' by Harry Govier Seeley13 June 1888
RR/12/34Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil ilia.-VIII. Further evidences of the skeleton in Deuterosaurus and Rhopalodon, from the Permian rocks of Russia' by Harry Govier Seeley20 July 1893
RR/12/35Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil ilia.-VIII. Further evidences of the skeleton in Deuterosaurus and Rhopalodon, from the Permian rocks of Russia' by Harry Govier Seeley26 July 1893
RR/13/118Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' by Harry Govier Seeley7 January 1896
RR/13/120Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, on his paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' to the Secretary of the Royal Society25 March 1896
RR/13/121Report from Harry Govier Seeley, on his paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' 2 April 1896
RR/13/123Letter from Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organisation, and classification of the fossil reptilia. Part X. On the complete skeleton of an anomodont reptile (Aristodesmus Rütimeyeri, Wiedersheim), from the bunter sandstone of reihen, near basel, giving new evidence of the relation of the anomodontia to the monotremata' by Henry Govier Seeley to the Secretary of the Royal Society17 May 1896
RR/12/234Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on three papers 'Researches on the structure, organisation and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., Section 1. On the Therosuchia', 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., Section 2. The reputed mammals from the Karroo formation of Cape Colony' and 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. -Part IX., Section 3. On Diademodon' by Harry Govier Seeley3 February 1894
RR/12/235Referee's report by Henry Woodward, on three papers 'Researches on the structure, organisation and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., Section 1. On the Therosuchia', 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—Part IX., Section 2. The reputed mammals from the Karroo formation of Cape Colony' and 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. -Part IX., Section 3. On Diademodon' by Harry Govier Seeley21 February 1894
MC/14/363Letter from Harry Govier Seeley, Sevenoaks, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society12 December 1888
PP/11/7/1Manuscript, 'On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria' by Harry Govier Seeley1887
PP/11/10/1Manuscript, 'On the bone in crocodilia commonly regarded as the os pubis and its representative among extinct reptilia' by Harry Govier Seeley1887
MC/15/27Letter from Edward Wingfield, Downing Street, to the Secretary of the Royal Society19 March 1889
MC/16/228Letter from Henry Govier Seeley, 25 Palace Gardens Terrace, to Professor [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society14 June 1895
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/15/34Letter from [Philip Henry Wodehouse] Currie, Foreign Office, to the Secretary of the Royal Society11 April 1889
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/15/307Letter from [Harry Govier] Seeley, 25 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, to [Mcihael] Foster6 October 1892
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
AP/65/8/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Researches on the structure, organization and classification of the Fossil Reptilia. Part IV: On a large humerus from the East Brak River, South Africa, indicating a new order of fossil animals, which was more nearly intermediate between reptiles and mammals, than the groups hitherto known' by H G [Harry Govier] Seeley1888
AP/65/8Unpublished paper, 'Researches on the structure, organization and classification of the Fossil Reptilia. Part IV: On a large humerus from the East Brak River, South Africa, indicating a new order of fossil animals, which was more nearly intermediate between reptiles and mammals, than the groups hitherto known' by H G [Harry Govier] Seeley1888
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
NLB/34/4Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor [Harry Grovier Seeley], Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1906
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    Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

    The Royal Society

    The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of
    the world's most eminent scientists and is the
    oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
    Registered charity number 207043

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