6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
arrived and were awaiting his return to town: they have now been 
placed in competent hands for investigation. (Vide infra, p. 21.) 
Able as all these papers were, and full of suggestive observations, 
they nevertheless did not give that scope for broader generalization 
which he found in his last subject, ‘‘ The Anatomy of Pleurotomaria 
Beyrichti, Hilg.” Here, fortunate in his material, he was able to 
correct the observations of previous investigators, and to establish that 
this primitive rhipidoglossate Diotocardian approaches the archi- 
trenioglossate Monotocardians, Vivipara and Nassopsis, in the position 
of the point of origin of the visceral loop, and that it is a form very 
closely related to the stock from which the Monotocardia originated ; 
while it shows signs of a common ancestry with the Cephalopoda in 
the position of the supporting skeleton of the gills and in the possession 
of a spiral stomach-coecum. 
Martin Woodward also edited, and brought up to date by original 
notes, additions, and emendations, vols. 1—iv of the English translation 
of Korschelt & Heider’s ‘‘ Textbook of Embryology of Invertebrates ”’ 
(1899-1900). 
The amount of written matter is, however, in Martin Woodward’s 
case no index to the work he really accomplished. An ever-ready 
willingness to help others was a noted feature of his character from 
early childhood, and wide indeed was the circle that profited by his 
kindly assistance and advice. As evidence of the esteem in which he 
was held and the impression he made on those with whom he came 
in contact, we may cite the following out of a letter from the Secretary 
to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for 
Ireland, who writes :—‘‘ During the time he was connected with the 
Department his services were of a most valuable kind, and were 
highly appreciated, and while his high character, brilliant talents, 
and devotion to Science were admired, his personality was such that 
those with whom he came most in contact deplore his loss as that of 
a real friend.’? Professor Tilden, too, similarly expressed himself 
in his address at the reopening of the Royal College of Science for 
the present session. This encomium from official quarters cannot fail 
to find warm response from the members of this Society, who one and 
all have reason to lament a friend in the loss of their late Secretary ; 
they can, therefore, fully sympathize with his intimate friends and 
relations, and yet more with that home circle of which he was all 
his years the light, and just pride. 
B. Bie 
