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also added to tlie museums at home and abroad. But his collection 

 of shells formed by far the most important part of the spoils which 

 he had secured. Before leaving England he had brought together, 

 through his Pacific and South American collections, and by means of 

 purchase and exchange, the largest and most valuable private collec- 

 tion then in existence. His vast Philippine collections enabled him to 

 increase this to an enormous extent ; and during the five-and-twenty 

 years that have elapsed, he has been untiringly engaged in its arrange- 

 ment and completion, in adding to it by purchase and exchange, and in 

 getting the species described and figured by conchologists, both at 

 home and abroad. It is stated by Mr. Eeeve that it contains not 

 fewer than 30,000 species and varieties, and in most cases several 

 specimens of each. 



IVIr. Samuel P. Woodward, Ph.D., A.L.S., F.G.S., Assistant- 

 Palseontologist in the British Museum, and Examiner in Natuial 

 Sciences to the Council of Military Education, died on the 8th of 

 July last, at the early age of 44 years. Mr. "Woodward was born 

 September 17, 1821. He was the second son of the late Samuel 

 Woodward of Norwich, well known to geologists and antiquaries as 

 the author of ' Geology of Norfolk,' (1833); * Synoptical Table of 

 British Organic Eemains,' (1830) ; a ' History of Norwich Castle,' 

 (posthumous, 1847), and various papers in the ' Archseologia' of the 

 Society of Antiquaries. Shortly after his father's death, he was 

 temporarily employed (in 1838) in the library of the British Museum, 

 and in 1839 succeeded Mr. Searles Wood, as Sub-curator of the 

 Geological Society of London, and was elected a Member of the 

 Botanical Society, and an Associate of the Linnean. In 1845 he 

 was appointed Professor of Botany and Geology in the Eoyal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester, and became one of the Pounders of 

 the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club. In 1848 he was made first- 

 class Assistant in the department of Geology and Mineralogy in the 

 British Museum. He published but one independent work, a 

 * Manual of Eecent and Fossil Shells,' of which the first part 

 appeared in 1851, and the two following in 1853 and 1856. This has 

 been used or recommended as a text-book by nearly every Professor 

 of Natural History and of Geology in Great Britain; while in 

 America it has obtained a very extensive circulation. 



The small Geological Map of England, published by the Society 

 for the Difiusion of Useful Knowledge, was prepared in 1843 by 

 Mr. Woodward, under the superintendence of Sir E. I. Murchison ; 



