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	[https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000134b.htm Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)] Encyclopedia of Australian Science		[https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000134b.htm Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)] Encyclopedia of Australian Science


	Zeller, Suzanne. Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824–1902) https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36015 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography		Zeller, Suzanne. Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824–1902) https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36015 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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	[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7058 Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil] Dictionary of Canadian Biography volume 13 (1901–1910)		[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7058 Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil] Dictionary of Canadian Biography volume 13 (1901–1910)

			[https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000134b.htm Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)] Encyclopedia of Australian Science


			Zeller, Suzanne. Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824–1902) https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36015 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

			For papers etc. see Geological Magazine (1899) p. 53,55

			Selwyn, A.R.C. 1855. Report upon some of the coal-seams of Van Diemen's Land.

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			\| GSM/DR/Sb/4/16 \|\| Correspondence with J Selwyn Turner \|\|
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			\| GSM/GL/Sw \|\| A R C Selwyn \|\|
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! Date !! Details
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| 1824 || Born July 28th at Kilmington, Somerset. Son of Rev. Canon Townsend Selwyn and grandson of Bishop of St. Davids. Married daughter of Rev. Edward Selwyn. Educated in Switzerland.
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| 1845 || Joined Geological Survey under De la Beche.
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| || Mapping in North Wales under Ramsay.
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| || First discovered unconformity between Cambrian and underlying schists.
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| || Also worked in Shropshire.
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| 1852 || Resigned. Appointed Director of Geological Survey, Victoria.
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| || Undertook investigation of gold-bearing rocks and gravels.
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| || Prepared reports and papers on economic geology of Victoria.
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| 1869 || Appointed Director to Geological Survey of Canada (on Logan’s retirement). Advanced Canadian geology from economic side.
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| || Worked out geologic structure of eruptive districts of east Canada.
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| || Also assistant to Canadian Commissioners for 3 Great Exhibitions: “Philadelphia Centennial” (1876); “Paris Universal” (1878); “Colonial and Indian” (1886) (in London).
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| 1871 || F.G.S.
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| 1874 || F.R.S.
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| 1876 || Murchison Medal.
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| 1884 || Clarke Gold Medal from Royal Society of New South Wales.
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| 1886 || Made C.M.G.
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| 1894 || Retired.
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| 1902 || Died October 19th at Vancouver.
|}

== Biographies and obituaries ==

Obituary - Alfred R.C. Selwyn, C.m.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born in 1824, died November 1902. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 10 p.96. 1903

Lapworth, C. Obituary - Alfred Charles Selwyn, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 59 p.lxi-lxiii. 1903

Proceedings Royal Society LXXV (1905) p. 325

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Richard_Cecil_Selwyn Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn] — Wikipedia article

Branagan, D.F. and Townley, K.A. Selwyn, Alfred Richard (1824–1902)] Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, (MUP), 1976

[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Selwyn,_Alfred_Richard_Cecil Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824–1902)] 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica on Wikisource

[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7058 Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil] Dictionary of Canadian Biography volume 13 (1901–1910)

== Publications ==

== BGS archives ==

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