Albert Charles Seward

Albert Charles Seward ( born October 9, 1863 in Lancaster, † April 11, 1941 in Oxford ) was a British botanist and geologist. As a botanist, he was mainly in the fields of bryology ( mosses), paleobotany and Phycology ( algae) operates; his botanical author abbreviation is " Seward ".

Life

Seward was 1906-1936 successor to Harry Marshall Ward as Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. In 1898 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1908 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London, 1930 with the Wollaston Medal in 1934 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society.

From 1922 to 1924 he was president of the Geological Society of London. In 1931 he was president of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and in 1939 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Works

  • The Wealden Flora. 2 vols 1894/95.
  • Fossil Plants. 4 vols 1898-1919.
  • The Jurassic flora. 2 vols 1900-1904.
  • Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species / edited by AC Seward ( Project Gutenberg )
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