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SELWYN, ALFRED RICHARD CECIL (1824-1902)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 615 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SELWYN, ALFRED RICHARD CECIL (1824-1902) , British geologist, son of the Rev. Townshend Selwyn, Canon of
Gloucester
 , was born at Kilmington in, Somerset on the 28th of July 1824. Educated in Switzerland, he there became interested in geology, and in 1845 he joined the staff of the
Geological
  Survey of
Great
  Britain. He was actively engaged in the survey of North Wales and bordering portions of Shropshire, and a
series
  of splendid
geological
  maps resulted from his
joint
 
work
  with A. C. Ramsay and J. B.
Jukes
 . In 1852 he was appointed director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia, where he gave
special
  attention to the gold-bearing rocks, until in 1869 the Colonial Legislature brought the Survey to an abrupt termination. At this date Sir W. E. Logan had just retired from the office of director of the Geological Survey of Canada, and Selwyn was appointed his successor. In this new sphere of activity he continued his geological
work
  with marked success, devoting particular attention to the Pre-Cambrian rocks of Quebec. He retired in 1894. Meanwhile in 1874 he had been elected F.R.S., in 1876 he was awarded the Murchison
Medal
  of the Geological Society of London, and he was created C.M.G. in 1886 for his distinguished work as assistant to the Canadian Commissioners at the exhibitions in Philadelphia (1876), Paris (1878) and London (1886). He retired to Vancouver in British
Columbia
 , where he died on the 19th of October 1902.
See memoir with portrait in Geol. Meg. (Feb. 1899).


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