1306 president's address. 



Bundaberg and Mount Perry Mail. — No. 477, 1881 : The 

 Carboniferous Rocks of the Lower Burnett. 



Besides these contributions to the current literature of Natural 

 History, I may mention the following important works : — Geo- 

 logical Observations in South Australia. 1 vol., London and 

 Melbourne, 1862; History of the Discovery and Exploration of 

 Australia. 2 vols., London, 1865 ; Fish and Fisheries of New 

 South Wales. 1 vol., Sydney, 1882. 



The following sketch of Mr. Woods's life and works is taken 

 from a biographical notice which appeared in the Adelaide Adver- 

 tiser of Oct. 8, 1889, and which is attributed to the pen of a very 

 near relative who writes with special authority. 



" The Rev. Mr. Woods was the son of Mr. James Dominick 

 Woods, of the Middle Temple and of Sydenham, Kent, who held 

 a leading position on the literary staff of the Times for 40 years. 

 His mother was Henrietta Maria St. Eloy, the daughter of the 

 Rev. Joseph Tenison, of Donoughmore Glebe, in the County of 

 Wicklow, Ireland. His maternal grandfather was the Bishop of 

 Ossory, who was the nephew of the Most Rev. Thomas Tenison, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Woods was born at West 

 Square, London, on November 15, 1832." When his school 

 education was completed he became associated with the Rev. 

 Canon Oakley of Islington, whom he assisted in establishing the 

 Catholic Schools of that suburb. After a temporary attachment 

 to the Order of Passionibts, he proceeded to France, when he 

 became one of the Professors at the College for Naval Cadets at 

 Toulon. Here his taste for geology and natural science received 

 its first development. 



Returning to England in about four years, he made the acquaint- 

 of Dr. WiLLSON, Roman Catholic Bishop of Tasmania, with whom 

 in 1855 he went to that colony to establish a system of schools 

 for the education of Ptoman Catholic children. 



From Tasmania he removed to South Australia, where he was 

 ordained in 1857, and where he remained for some years, engaged 

 both in mission work, and in the organisation of the Roman 



