Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was Vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.[1]
He was the second son[2] of the geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, the second son of the geologist and antiquary Samuel Woodward. Awarded the Wollaston Medal in 1909. His brother was Bernard Barham Woodward, a British malacologist and a member of staff at the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.
Selected works[]
- The Geology of England and Wales. 1876.; 2nd edition. 1885.
- The Jurassic Rocks of Britain. 3 vols. 1893–1895.
- The Geology of Water-Supply. 1910.
- History of Geology. 1911.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Obituary. Horace B. Woodward". Geological Magazine. 51: 142–144. 1914. doi:10.1017/s0016756800138282.
- ^ Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1905). "WOODWARD, Horace Bolingbroke". Who's Who. Vol. 57. pp. 1771–1772.
- ^ "Review of History of Geology by Horace B. Woodward". The Athenæum (4360): 572. 20 May 1911.
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- "Archival material relating to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward". UK National Archives.
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