Abstract:Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell, C.I.E., F. R. S., died in Cambridge on 11 February 1964, at the age of 83. He was almost the last of a great generation of British zoologists who, brought up wholly in the grand nineteenth century tradition of evolutionary biology, saw and had to adapt themselves to the great change of outlook which began to overtake zoologists in the first decades of this century and which still continues. He was born in Leamington on 5 March 1880, the second son of the Reve… Show more
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