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THE death of Prof. H. G. Seeley, which took place at his residence on the morning of January 8, makes a big gap in the ranks of the comparatively small body of British vertebrate palæontologists, among whom the deceased professor was entitled to rank as the doyen. Born in London in February, 1839, he seems to have acquired literary and scientific tastes at an early age, and in the ’sixties we find him established at Cambridge, where he was taken up by the late Prof. Adam Sedgwick, and employed to work at the fossil vertebrates then being rapidly accumulated in the Woodwardian Museum, and likewise to lecture on geology when the aged professor was incapacitated from doing so by infirmity or illness. It was at this time that the so-called coprolite diggings were in full swing in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, and Seeley was to the fore in bringing to light what was to a great extent a new Mesozoic vertebrate fauna, albeit one of which the remains were for the most part in a sadly fragmentary condition.
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L., R. Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S. . Nature 79, 314–315 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079314b0
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