CASSINIA 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY 

 ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



No. VIII. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1904. 



Samuel Washington Woodhouse 



BY WITMER STONE 



The biographies which have appeared in the preceding num- 

 bers of Cassinia have dealt with men whose lives had been 

 completed long ere the present generation of ornithologists 

 began their labors, indeed before many of them were born. But 

 Dr. Woodhouse, although a contemporary of Townsend, Nuttall, 

 Gambel and Cassin, outlived all of his associates and in the last 

 years of his life became a member of our Club and of the Amer- 

 ican Ornithologists' Union, and in his conversation and reminis- 

 cences seemed to bring us almost in touch with men who are to 

 us but names in ornithological history. 



Samuel Washington Woodhouse was born on Walnut street 

 above Eighth, Philadelphia, on June 27, 1821, the son of Com- 

 modore Samuel Woodhouse, U. S. N., and H. Matilda Roberts. 

 His grandfather, William Woodhouse, eon of John Woodhouse, 

 of Alnwick, Northumberland, England, emigrated to Philadel- 

 phia in 1766 and entered upon a business career at 6 South 

 Front street. Young Woodhouse was educated at several 

 private classical schools in Philadelphia and at West Haven, 

 Connecticut. 



