PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
MARTIN FOUNTAIN WOODWARD. 
Born NovemsBer 5, 18698. Diep Serrember 15, 1901. 
Read 8th November, 1901. 
Brotoarcat Science, and more particularly that branch of it in which 
this Society is peculiarly interested, has not for many years suffered 
so sad or so serious a loss as befell it on that dark September night 
when our then Secretary was drowned through the capsizing of a boat 
at the entrance of Ballinakill Harbour, on the west coast of Ireland. 
Martin Fountain Woodward, the younger son of our esteemed first 
President, Dr. Henry Woodward, was born in London on the Sth of 
November, 1865, and received his early education at the Kensington 
Grammar School, where he attended from 1875 to 1888. In October 
of the last-named year he entered the Royal School of Mines and 
Normal College of Science (now the Royal College of Science), where 
the hereditary bent of his mind found free play, and where he apphed 
himself with such ardour to his studies that the following year (1884), 
on the conclusion of his geological course, he was awarded the 
Murchison Medal and prize of books. 
During the succeeding session (1884-5) he attended the zoological 
course, the last conducted by Professor Huxley in person, and was 
first on the list at both the elementary and advanced’ examinations, 
while his dissection for the elementary practical examination was 
long kept as an ensample.? 
This brought him his Associateship, while his marked ability in 
Biology led to his appointment by Professor Huxley as Assistant 
Demonstrator in October, 1885. In July of the following year he was 
1 Bracketed first in Advanced Zoology with A. V. Jennings, June, 1889. 
2 It had been his father’s earnest desire that Martin Woodward should pass out of 
the Schools in Geology and Paleontology, but Professor Huxley (who was Dean, 
and at that time still took a lively and active interest in the College) called upon 
Dr. Woodward and urged upon him that his son should remain attached to the 
Biological Laboratory, and not pursue the advanced geological course which his 
father contemplated for him; Huxley, with characteristic animation, exclaiming, 
**Tt is necessary to keep up the apostolic succession in Biology, and Martin 
Woodward is owr man!’ 
VOL. V.—MARCH, 1902. 1 
