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 active in the fields of bryology (mosses), palaeobotany and phycology (algae); its botanical author abbreviation is " Seward ".

Life

Seward was from 1906 to 1936 Harry Marshall Ward's successor 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 and in 1934 with the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society. In 1932 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Seward was President of the Geological Society of London from 1922 to 1924. 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 .

The Australian polar explorer John Rymill named a mountain group on the Antarctic Peninsula after Seward, which he led during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) he led .

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 )

literature

• TM Harris: Obituary: Sir Albert Charles Seward, FRS, 1863-1941 . New Phytologist, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Oct. 30, 1941), pp. 161-164. ( www.jstor.org )

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Albert Charles Seward at the IPNI