580 THE NATURAL HISTORY REYIEW. 



and Professor Owen acknowledged his assistance in the Invertebrate 

 portion of his ' Palaeontology.' Dr. Woodward contributed several 

 important papers to the ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society,' ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' ' Eecreative 

 Science,' ^ Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' &c. The 

 article ' Volcanoes ' in the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' the scientific 

 reviews in the ' Critic ' of 1860, and the ' Athenaeum ' reports of 

 proceedings in the Greological Sections of the British Association, 

 from 1841 to 1856, are amongst his minor contributions to Geolo- 

 gical literature. 



These Memoirs exhibit the vast acquaintance with the recent 

 forms of Mollusca possessed by their author, and aiford strong evi- 

 dence of the philosophical cast of his mind, and his talent in deter- 

 mining the zoological relations of obscure organisms. One of his 

 most remarkable achievements in this line of research was his 

 determination of the true affinities of the extinct family of Budistes, 

 published in the Xlth volume of the Quarterly Journal of the Geolo- 

 gical Society ; and the Society showed its appreciation of the merits 

 and value of his memoir on that subject by awarding him the pro- 

 ceeds of the WoUaston donation fund in the year 1854 ; and again 

 in 1857, on this account, and to assist him in his researches in the 

 class E-adiata. 



He was a member of the Council of the Geological Society from 

 1859, and had recently been appointed one of the Examiners in 

 Geology and Palaeontology to the University of London. 



Although his published works may, for a man of his acknowledged 

 merit and position in the scientific world, appear to be small, they 

 represent only a portion of the original work that he performed ; 

 many of the results he arrived at must unhappily have died with 

 him, but others remain in the form of carefully prepared manuscripts, 

 which his brothers entertain the hope of publishing. It may be a 

 matter of surprise that he did so little in making known the results 

 of his investigations; but for the last twenty years of his life, he 

 suff'ered from chronic asthma, which eventually became so distressing 

 as to awaken the sympathies of all, and caused many to marvel at 

 the energy he displayed in research and conversation during intervals 

 of release from pain. 



An attack of acute bronchitis which occasioned the rupture of 

 an artery in the lungs, was the immediate cause of his death, at 

 Heme Bay, (whither he had gone in the hope of benefit to his 

 health), on the 11th of July last. 



