Searles Valentine Wood

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SV Wood (right) with J. Prestwich , J. Morris and FE Edwards

Searles Valentine Wood (born February 14, 1798 in Woodbridge , † October 26, 1880 in Martlesham near Woodbridge) was an English paleontologist .

Life

Wood was the son of John Wood and Mary Ann Baker. In 1811 he hired himself as a midshipman in the fleet of the British East India Company and became an officer. In 1821 he married Elizabeth Taylor, the only daughter of Thomas Taylor from London . He left the company in 1826 and traveled for some time, then settled down as a partner in his father's bank in Hasketon near Woodbridge in Suffolk and studied paleontology . In 1835 he retired from work due to illness and moved to London after his health was restored. There he found a job as a curator at the Museum of the Geological Society of London , of which he became a member in 1839.

From then on he dealt with the study of the mollusks of the Neogene ( Newer Tertiary ) of Suffolk and the Paleogene ( Older Tertiary ), especially the Eocene of the Hampshire Basin . Between 1861 and 1871 he published his study A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England (, A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England '), by the Palaeontographical Society was issued. His main work was the work A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca ('A Monograph of the Mollusks of Crag'), written between 1848 and 1856 , which was also published by the Palaeontographical Society. The work received three additional volumes in 1872–1874, 1879 and 1882, the last of which by his son Searles Valentine Wood jun. was issued.

Wood was in correspondence with Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin , who paid tribute to Woods' merits in 1854 in an essay to the Palaeontographical Society. In 1860 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London for his achievements .

Wood died at the age of 82 and was buried in Melton . He is said to have remarked jokingly:

"I was born in sight of one crag pit and shall probably be buried in another"

"I was born within sight of a quarry, and will likely be buried in another"

- Searles Valentine Wood (senior) : The Wood Family of Melton Hall, Suffolk, in the 19th century

literature

  • Wood, Searles Valentine . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 28 : Vetch - Zymotic Diseases . London 1911, p. 790 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Wood, Searles Valentine, the elder . In: Dictionary of national biography . tape 62 , 1900, pp. 375-376 .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves. Retrieved January 18, 2010 .
  2. ↑ A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca. Retrieved January 18, 2010 .
  3. ↑ The term crag actually means rock or crag , but was used in East Anglia for Neogene deposits ( Red Crag , Coralline Crag and Mammiferous Crag ). See also GCR block - Neogene (NEO). Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  4. ^ Searles Valentine Wood jun. was a solicitor in Woodbridge for a few years , but gave up this profession and, like his father, devoted himself to geology . He mainly studied the structure of the deposits of the crags and the glacial deposits.
  5. ^ The Wood Family of Melton Hall, Suffolk, in the 19th century. barbsweb.co.uk, accessed June 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Searles Valentine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wood the Elder, Searles Valentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodbridge
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1880
Place of death Martlesham at Woodbridge