2 PROCREDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
promoted to the rank of Demonstrator of Zoology, a status he still 
held at the time of his decease, and, to quote from the official report, 
‘commenced . . . . an inquiry into the detailed structure of 
the Molluscan odontophore.”’ ? 
His zeal in his work was not only shown in the way in which he 
discharged his official duties, but by the good use he made of the 
annual long vacations to yet further advance his biological studies. 
Thus in 1887 he accompanied Mr. W. H. Hudleston on a three 
weeks dredging cruise in the English Channel to the west of 
Portsmouth, and accompanied the Geologists’ Association on their 
excursion into Cornwall. « 
In 1889 he spent three weeks at Guernsey investigating the 
marine zoology of the island; the summers of 1890 and 1891 were 
spent at Plymouth working in the Laboratory of the Marine Biological 
Association ; subsequent vacations were passed in South Deyon and at 
Sark (1896 and 1897); whilst on one occasion, with his friend and 
former pupil Mr. E. W. L. Holt, he explored some of the celebrated 
dene-holes in North Kent. 
In the summers of 1899 and 1900 he joined Mr. Holt at the 
Marine Biological Laboratory of the Fisheries Board for Ireland, 
which was then stationed at Inishbofin, and the interesting series 
of Molluscan specimens that he brought back from that locality and 
exhibited at our meetings will be in the recollection of our Members. 
In the present year, having recently and successfully undergone 
an operation for hernia, he was officially acting as assistant during 
the holidays at this Laboratory, which had been moved to a position 
in Ballinakill Harbour off the hamlet of Moyard. He had this time 
been especially interested in and had collected a number of fine 
Fusoids for investigation, which with other material, we are glad to 
say, has been placed by Mr. Holt in the hands of one of our 
Members, to be worked out for the Board. 
Martin Woodward’s stay was drawing to a close when, with his 
colleague and companion of his holiday, Professor W. Watson, he 
paid a visit on 15th September to his friend Mr. Allies, the resident 
owner of Inishbofin. On the return journey they were delayed by 
contrary winds, and did not approach the harbour until after dark. 
Suddenly, as they were nearing their destination, and were within 
a mile of land, a sharp squall from the hills upset and sank the boat. 
Martin Woodward, though a fairly good swimmer, never rose, and 
Mr. Watson and the boatman in charge, after calling in vain for their 
companion, only reached land themselves with great difficulty. 
1 34th Rep. Dept. Sci. & Arts, p. 38. 
