338 Geology. 



Wood (EDWARD) 



Wood was a manufacturer who lived at Richmond, Yorkshire, and 

 amused himself by investigating the Carboniferous rocks of Swaledale, 

 from which he gathered a valuable collection of fossils. Here he dis- 

 covered a bed crowded with specimens of the crinoid described by his 

 friend Prof, de Koninck as Woodocrinus, 1854. Five of the earliest 

 known specimens were presented by Wood to the Museum in 1859. He 

 also gave a fine slab covered with specimens of the fossil to the Carlton 

 Club, of which he was a member. Other specimens of his collecting 

 found their way, through the dealer J. R. Gregory, to the Museum. 

 After Wood's death, his collection was bought by Wm. Reed, of York, 

 who presented it, with his own large collection, to the museum of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 



Wood (E. R.) 



Presented Mammalian remains from the Gower Caves, Glamorgan- 

 shire, 1868. 



Wood (JOSEPH) 



Collected Mammalian remains from a Turbary near Wai tham stow, 

 purchased 1869. 



Wood (J. A.) 



Presented fossil wood from Antigua, 1828. 

 Wood (M.) 



Collected Apiocrinus from the Bradford Clay, purchased 1855. 

 Wood (SEARLES VALENTINE) [1798-1880] 



From 1826 for about ten years Searles Wood lived in Suffolk and 

 collected fossil shells from the Crag of that county and of Essex. On 

 moving to London, he was associated with Lyell in the classification of 

 the Tertiary formations, and continued his study of their molluscs. He 

 was one of the members of the " London Clay Club." This led to 

 the preparation of his monograph of the Mollusca of the Crag, the 

 opening volume of which formed the first publication of the Palseonto- 

 graphical Society (1847). Subsequent volumes, with supplements, were 

 issued at intervals down to 1882. The main work, however, was com- 

 pleted earlier, and in 1852 Mr. Wood presented to the Zoological 

 Department of the British Museum his unrivalled collection of British 

 Pliocene fossils, containing, with but two or three exceptions, all the 

 specimens up till then described and figured in his monograph, as well as 

 Cirripedia figured by C. Darwin, Entomostraca figured by T. Rupert 

 Jones, and Foraminifera figured by Jones, Parker, and Brady all in the 

 monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. A supplementary collec- 

 tion containing such specimens, subsequently described, as were in the 

 author's cabinet, was presented by Mrs. S. V. Wood, junior, in 1885, to 

 the Geological Department, to which all of the original collection preserved 

 by the Zoological Department had in 1884 been transferred with the 

 approval of Mr. S. V. Wood, junior. Mr. Wood also presented to the 

 Museum in 1850 the valuable collection of vertebrate remains, including 

 the unique jaws of Alligator hantoniensis and Microchcerus erinaceus, 

 which he had, in 1843-1845, extracted from the Eocene Freshwater beds of 

 Hordwell Cliff, Hants, and partially figured and described in the London 

 Geological Journal (1846-47). Others were described in Owen's 

 " Reptilia of the London Clay " (Palzeontogr. Soc., 1849). 



