278 Master Minds of Modern Science 



their home a letter from the Embassy assuring them that 

 it was impossible to find accommodation in Aragon and 

 that they had better not dream of going there ! 



Sir Arthur Smith Woodward began his scientific career 

 in 1882 by obtaining a post as assistant in the British 

 Museum, and for years he worked upon fossil fishes. The 

 Trustees gave him the task of making a catalogue of 

 these fishes, a task which took fourteen years and ended 

 in the production of four thick volumes. There is no 

 branch of geology in which Sir Arthur has not exercised 

 his talents, and he has contributed nearly three hundred 

 papers to various scientific journals, on such varied sub- 

 jects as British crocodiles, horned tortoises, the Sarga 

 antelope, whose remains were found near Twickenham, 

 dinosaurs from Transylvania, and great fish from the 

 chalk of Kansas. 



Sir Arthur has received the Royal Medal of the Royal 

 Society, the Cuvier Prize of the French Academy, the 

 Lyell Medal of the Geological Society, and in 1924 the 

 honour of knighthood. And after nearly half a century 

 of devotion to it he is still as keen on geological work 

 as ever. 



