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one of the all the year round bathers, at first in the Serpentine, 

 Hyde Park, and afterwards in the Thames at Kew, and twice finished 

 in the first six in the long distance swimming championship in the 

 Thames, for which he received medals. 



[Much of the foregoing information was kindly supplied by 

 Mr. H. C. Fulton.] 



B. B. W. • 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., etc.i 1832-1921. 

 Read by the President, 11th November, 19S1. 

 Since this Society last met it has sustained the grievous loss of one 

 of its most prominent Members, Dr. Henry Woodward, who was 

 amongst the most active of its founders, its first President, and the 

 first nominated of the three Honorary Members elected at the 

 beginning of the present year. 



Dr. Woodward's great achievements in the palaeontological world 

 are so well known and have been so well set forth elsewhere with 

 full biographical details, that only a brief allusion to the more 

 important is here necessary. He was born at Norwich 24th 

 November, 1832, and was the fifth son of Samuel Woodward, 

 the celebrated Norfolk geologist and antiquarian. Leaving school 

 in 1846, he went to reside with his brother, Dr. S. P. Woodward, 

 the far-famed malacologist, who was then a Professor at the Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester, and it was there, whilst attending 

 the lectures and making field excursions, that young Henry developed 

 his love of natural history. When his brother was appointed in 

 1849 to the British Museum, Henry came with him to town, but after 

 an interval of temporary employments of a scientific nature, went to 

 Norwich and spent the years between 1851 and 1858 in the East of 

 England Bank there. In the latter year he obtained a junior post 

 in the Geological Department of the British Museum under the 

 Keepership of Mr. G. R. Waterhouse. Successive promotions 

 followed till, on the death of his brother in 1865, he succeeded as 

 First Class Assistant, and on Mr. Waterhouse' s retirement in 1880 

 became Keeper of the Department. 



On him devolved the task of organizing and superintending the 

 removal of the geological collections to the then new Natural History 

 Museum at South Kensington, and their display in their new 

 quarters. His arrangement persists to this day, and with the excellent 

 guide books he wrote, or superintended, is a standing testimony 

 to the able way in which the work was carried out. So highly were 

 his services appreciated that, with Treasury sanction, he was 

 retained in his post for four years beyond the normal limit, and was 

 then employed on work in his old department for yet another four 



^ A portrait of Dr. Woodward was published as frontispiece to these 

 Proceedings, Vol. VI. 



