THE REV. J. G. WOOD. 



CHAPTER I. 



BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE. 



Birth Parentage Youthful Delicacy of Constitution Juvenile Precocity 

 Spelling and Art Lack of Mathematical Talent First Attendance at Church 

 Removal of the Family to Oxford Outdoor Life and its Results Aquatic 

 Gambols How to catch Crayfish Boyish Escapades A Juvenile Naturalist 

 and his Ways Pets First Visit to the Ashmolean Museum School Life 

 A Stern Discipline Natural History again Snake-racing Outdoor 

 Sports An Accident in the Cricket Field Painful Experiences Subsequent 

 Accidents Matriculation at Merton College, Oxford College Pets Cater- 

 pillar Breeding on a Large Scale Snakes again Recreations An Un- 

 explained Mystery Whose was the Poker? A Night Assault Repulse of 

 the Assailants B.A. Degree Love for Classics " Horace " Reviewed 

 Classical Proprieties versus Scientific Nomenclature Tutorship at Little 

 Hinton Return to Oxford Anatomical Studies Work with the Micro- 

 scope Ordination. 



THE REVEREND JOHN GTEORGE WOOD, clergyman, 

 author, and lecturer upon Natural History, father 

 of the writer of this memoir, was born on the 

 21st of July, 1827, in Howland Street, London. 

 His father, John Freeman Wood, a surgeon, and for 

 some years Chemical Lecturer at the Middlesex 

 Hospital, had three years previously married Miss 

 Juliana Lisetta Arntz, a young lady of German 

 parentage upon the father's side, who, having passed 

 the first fourteen years of her life at Dusseldorf, had 

 then completed her education, and finally settled in 

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