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I.—Eminent Living Geologists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The number of eminent living geologists surviving since the days of De la Beohe and Ramsay and the beginnings of the Geological Survey must indeed be very few, but in Dr. A. R. C. Selvvyn, the subject of this brief notice, we have a living illustration of one of those active and energetic early workers whose labours have extended from Britain to Australia and Canada, and who, after half a century of active service in the field, is now enjoying his well-merited repose in British Columbia, “the land of the far West.”
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page 50 note 1 See Letters, etc., of Jukes, J. B., 1871, pp. 302, 314, 322, and 341.Google Scholar
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page 51 note 1 September, October, 1848.
page 53 note 1 The whole area of the Principality of Wales is 7,378 square miles: Victoria is the smallest of the Australian colonies and its area is 87,884 square miles! What a contrast for Selwyn after seven years among the mountains of Wales!
page 53 note 2 For a most interesting account of the Tertiary deposits of Victoria, based upon Mr. Selwyn's reports and papers, see British Association, Section C (Geology), Norwich, 1868; and GEOL. MAG., Vol. V (1868), p. 566, by H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S.Google Scholar
page 55 note 1 See President's speech, Feb. 18, 1876: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. (Proceedings), vol. xxxii, p. 49.Google Scholar
page 55 note 2 The writer is much indebted to Sir A. Geikie's “Life of Ramsay”; to his friend J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S., for various references; and to G. Pringle Hughes, Esq., J.P., Middleton Hall, Wooler, Northumberland, for the photograph here reproduced, and for valuable information, a part of which is embodied in this notice.