Henry Woodward (geologist)

Henry Bolingbroke Woodward (born November 24, 1832 in Norwich , † September 6, 1921 in Bushey , Hertfordshire ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

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His father Samuel Woodward (1790-1838) was a respected amateur geologist who was a bank clerk in Norwich and published on historical ( antiquarian ) topics and the geology of Norfolk. One of Henry Woodward's brothers was the Windsor Castle librarian and historian Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (1816–1869).

Woodward became an assistant in the geology department of the British Museum in 1858 , where his brother Samuel Pickworth Woodward worked, and headed the department as chief custodian from 1880 to 1901.

He wrote monographs on fossil British horseshoe crabs (1866-1878) and trilobites of carbon (1883-1884).

In 1873 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He is an Honorary Doctor (LL.D.) from the University of St Andrews (1878). Woodward was President of the Geological Society of London from 1894 to 1896 , whose Murchison Medal he received in 1884 and whose Wollaston Medal he received in 1906. He was also President of the Palaeontographical Society, the Macalogical Society, the Geologists Association, the Royal Microscopical Society, and the Museums Association.

From 1865 to 1918 he was the editor of Geological Magazine, which he co-founded in 1864.

His nephew Horace Bolingbroke Woodward , the son of Samuel Pickworth Woodward, was also an eminent geologist who received the Wollaston Medal.

Fonts

• A guide to the fossil reptiles and fishes in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology. British Museum (Natural History), London 1896

literature

• Obituary. Henry Woodward . In: The Geological Magazine . Volume 58, 1921, pp. 481-484 ( online ).

Web links

• Biography at the Darwin Correspondence Project