MEMOIR OF MARTIN F. WOODWARD. 5] 
It was not until September 27th that the body was recovered on the 
site of the catastrophe, and laid to rest two days later in the burial- 
ground attached to the Protestant Church at Moyard. In this sad 
fashion was a promising career cut short, alas! all too soon. 
Famed for his manipulative skill’ and his extensive biological 
knowledge, as well as the great care and accuracy of his observations, 
Martin Woodward was not a voluminous writer, as the bibliographical 
list of his papers appended to this notice shows. All his lterary 
productions, however, are characterized by that extreme care and 
attention to detail which marked the rest of his work, and his 
conclusions are firmly based on foundations of carefully ascertained 
facts, while on all points open to difference of opinion the views of 
others, however adverse, are always fully and fairly stated. 
Although, as incidentally mentioned, he started by working at the 
Mollusca, Martin Woodward’s first published articles were on other 
subjects. Beginning with lighter notes contributed to minor societies, 
and with records of teratological facts that had come under his 
observation, he turned for a time to the Vertebrata, and his first 
important contributions to science comprise a series of papers on the 
dentition of certain groups of the Mammalia. Of these memoirs 
Dr. Forsyth Major, no mean authority, kindly writes :— 
‘““M. F. Woodward’s first publication, ‘On the Milk-Dentition of the 
Procavia (Hyrax) capensis and of the Rabbit,’ revealed an investigator 
who was not only perfectly conversant with, and even improved upon, 
the various methods in use for examination, but who at the same 
time combined with sound reasoning a clear exposition of known as 
well as new facts. In the Procavia Woodward discovered some 
additional milk-teeth, and showed that the deciduous set of this 
genus is composed, apart from the four grinders, of three upper and 
two lower incisors and a canine in each jaw. ‘The discovery of the 
Tertiary Pliohyrax has imparted renewed interest in these investiga- 
tions. As to the Rabbit, Huxley’s observation of an upper and 
a lower deciduous incisor, which never cut the gum but are absorbed 
in the unborn animal, was confirmed and enlarged. His ‘General 
Considerations’ are, as it were, a programme of Woodward’s later 
work on the Dentition of Mammals. 
‘In 1893 the first part of his ‘Contributions to the Study of 
Mammalian Dentition: On the Development of the Teeth of the 
Macropodide ’ appeared, and herein were described for the first time 
the presence of undoubted embryonic vestigial teeth in Marsupials. 
1 His latest exploit had been to cut sections of some photographic films for Sir 
William Abney, K.C.B. 
