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his 
twelfth. volume. of their Transactions, at. once established his reputation asa 
systematic botanist. The fall of Napoleon having opened the Continent to 
English tourists, Mr. Woods determined. to avail himself of the opportunity to 
udy some of the best examples of architecture in foreign lands, With this 
view, he passed about four years in a tour through France, Switzerland, Italy, 
Sicily, and Greece, during which he formed.a most extensive collection of 
sketches and critical notes upon the principal public buildings which came in 
is way. e results were given to the world in 1828, in two quarto volumes, 
under the title of ‘Letters of an Architect,’ etc., a work of which the late Mr. 
Britton speaks in terms of high commendation, and which has gradually become 
one of the. text-books of the profession. He also edited the fourth and con- 
cluding volume of that magnificent work, Stuart’s * Athens,’ On his return to 
land in 1819 or 1820, he took up his abode in Furnival’s Inn, where he 
remained till 1830, and where he devoted much of his time to the arrangement 
of his botanical collections... These were afterwards greatly augmented during 
several. successive visits to the Continent, in which, though he did not wholly 
ignore architecture, he gradually came to regard botany as his profession. 
tanical notes made during these Continental excursions, and in others within 
the British Islands, were communicated, either to his old friend Sir W. J 
Hooker, for publication in the ‘ Companion to the Botanical Magazine’ (viz. 
* Botanical Excursion in the North of England, in 1835,” and “$ Account of a 
Botanical Excursion into. Brittany, in 1836’), or, subsequently, to the * Phyto- 
of a Botanical Ex- 
logist, in the successive volumes of which appear—‘ Notes 
iii); Letter to R. Brown, Esq., P.L.S., containing Botanical Memoranda of 
a Visit to France, in. 1851” (vol. iv.) ; On the Botany of the Great Orme's 
Head, Carnarvon, in 1855 ” (new series, vol. i.) ; Some Botanical Notes made 
during a Tour through a part of Ireland in 1855" (ib. new series, vol. i). Hi 
last journey on the Continent was made in the summer of 1857, when he was 
already upwards. of eighty. years of age; and the results, under the title of 
Notes of a Botanical Ramble in the North, of Spain,” were read before the 
Linnean Society in November, 1857, and published in the second volume of its 
Journal... During the last thirty years of his life, Mr. Woods resided at Lewes, 
in Sussex, devoting much of his time to the investigation of the botany of the 
county, a pursuit which naturally brought him into frequent. communication 
with the venerable W. Borrer, whom. he had long known, and whose death in 
January, 1862, must have been. deeply felt by one who had survived so many 
of the scientific friends of his early days, In. 1850 appeared his. * Tourist's 
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