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 the name of ‘Bonplandia,’ of which ten quarto volumes were published at Hanover between 1853 and 1862. In 1857 he went to Montreal, representing the Linnean Society at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and took the opportunity to visit the United States. In 1860 he was commissioned, with Colonel Smythe, R.A., to report on the Fiji Islands, before the English government accepted their cession. His letters, written in the voyage out, to the ‘Athenæum’ and the ‘Gardeners' Chronicle,’ were translated both into French and into German. He made the ascent of Vorua and Buku Levu. His report ‘On the Resources and Vegetable Products of Fiji’ was presented to parliament, and in 1862 was published separately as ‘Viti: an Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands.’ The appendix contained a catalogue of all the previously described plants of the islands, and some new species were described in ‘Bonplandia.’ In the same year he contributed an essay on ‘Fiji and its Inhabitants’ to Francis Galton's ‘Vacation Tours.’ In 1865 he began the issue of a ‘Flora Vitiensis,’ in ten quarto parts, with one hundred plates by Fitch. Of this, nine parts, written by himself, were published before his death; the tenth, dealing with the cryptogamic plants, and by various hands, was issued in 1873.

After discontinuing the issue of ‘Bonplandia’ in 1862, Seemann in 1863 began the publication of the ‘Journal of Botany, British and Foreign;’ from 1869 Dr. Henry Trimen [q. v.] and Mr. J. G. Baker were associated with him in the editorship. In 1864 some French and Dutch capitalists sent him to Venezuela to report on its resources. Near the Tocuyo he discovered a valuable bed of anthracite. From March to August 1866, and during 1867, he accompanied Captain Bedford Pim to Nicaragua. Seemann's letters to the ‘Athenæum’ and to the ‘Panama Star and Herald’ were reprinted in 1869 as ‘Dottings on the Roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito.’ One result of these journeys was the purchase by English capitalists of the Javali gold mine, Chontales, Nicaragua, of which Seemann was appointed managing director. He had also the management of a large sugar estate near Panama. The climate ruined his health, and he died at Javali of fever on 10 Oct. 1871. Seemann married an Englishwoman, who predeceased him, leaving one daughter.

He became a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1852, and was a vice-president of the Anthropological Society and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In botany he made a special study of Camellia and Thea, of which he published a synopsis in the Linnean ‘Transactions’ (vol. xxii.), and of the ivy family, his account of which was reprinted from the ‘Journal of Botany’ in 1868. He introduced into cultivation the cannibal tomato, eaten with human flesh in the Fiji Islands, the candle-tree (Parmentiera cerifera), and several handsome species of palm. Regel dedicated to him the genus Seemannia, gesnerads, natives of the Andes.

Besides the botanical works and books of travels already mentioned, Seemann was author of the following scientific treatises: 1. ‘Die Volksnamen der amerikanischen Pflanzen,’ Hanover, 1851, 8vo. 2. ‘Die in Europa eingeführten Acacien,’ Hanover, 1852, 8vo. 3. ‘Popular History of the Palms,’ London, 1856, 8vo. 4. ‘The British Ferns at one View,’ with illustrations by W. Fitch, London, 1860, 8vo. 5. ‘Hannoversche Sitten und Gebräuche in ihrer Beziehung zur Pflanzenwelt,’ Leipzig, 1862, 16mo. 6. ‘Revision of the Natural Order Hederaceæ,’ London, 1868, 8vo. He also wrote descriptions in English and German of the 84 Coloured Plates of Endlicher's ‘Paradisus Vindobonensis,’ 1858, folio, and translated from the German descriptions of ‘Twenty-four Views of the Vegetation of the Coasts of the Pacific,’ by F. H. von Kittlitz, 1861, 8vo. He wrote prefaces to I. J. Benjamin's ‘Acht Jahre in Asien und Afrika,’ 1858, to W. T. Pritchard's ‘Polynesian Reminiscences,’ 1866, and to Lindley and Moore's ‘Treasury of Botany,’ 1865.

Seemann, who displayed remarkable versatility, wrote numerous articles in periodicals in English, German, and other languages. He was also a musical composer, and was author of three short German plays which enjoyed popularity in Hanover. Their titles ran: ‘Wahl macht Qual,’ Hanover, 1867, 8vo; ‘Der Wohlthäter wider Willen,’ Hanover, 1867, 8vo; and ‘Die gelben Rosen,’ Hanover, 1867, 8vo.

[There is a lithographic portrait of him in the Journal of Botany for 1872; Gardeners' Chronicle, 1871, p. 1678; Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1871–2, p. lxxiv; Edwards's Photographic Portraits of Men of Eminence, 1866; Appleton's American Dictionary.]

 SEFFRID, SEFRID, SEINFRID, or SAFRED II (d. 1204), bishop of Chichester, was archdeacon of Chichester when, in 1178, he was made dean of that church. He was consecrated bishop of Chichester on 16 Nov. 1180. He was on the side of the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, in their