The New Student's Reference Work/Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil

Selwyn (sĕl′wĭn), Alfred Richard Cecil, was born in Kilmington, Somerset, July 28 1824, and educated partly in Switzerland. His pursuit of his favorite science began officially in 1845 when he was appointed assistant-geologist on the geological survey of Great Britain, a post he resigned in 1852 to accept that of director of the geological survey of Victoria. In 1869 he came to Canada as director of the Canadian geological survey, a post he held until 1895. He wrote the Canadian part of Stanford's Compendium of Geography, and was the editor of and an important contributor to the annual reports of the survey of Canada from 1869 to 1894. He died in 1904.