384 Obituary— Samuel P. Woodward. 
Field-club. In 1848 he was made first-class Assistant in the depart- 
ment of Geology and Mineralogy in the British Museum. He 
published but one independent work, a ‘Manual of Recent and 
Fossil Shells,’ of which the first part appeared in 1851, and the two 
following in 1853 and 1856. It has been used or recommended as a 
text-book by nearly every Professor of Natural History and of 
Geology in Great Britain ; while in America it has obtained a very 
extensive circulation. The small Geological Map of England, pub- 
lished by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, was 
prepared in 1843 by Mr. Woodward, under the superintendence of 
Sir R. I. Murchison ; and Professor Owen acknowledged his assist- 
ance in the Invertebrate portion of his ‘Paleontology.’ Dr. Wocd- 
ward contributed several important papers to the ‘ Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society,’ ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society,’ ‘Recreative Science,’ ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History,’ &c. The article ‘Volcanoes’ in the ‘ Encyclopedia Bri- 
tannica,’ the scientific reviews in the ‘Critic’ of 1860, and the 
‘Atheneum’ reports of proceedings in the Geological Section of the 
British Association from 1841 to 1856, are amongst his minor con- 
tributions to Geological literature. 
These Memoirs exhibit the vast acquaintance with the recent 
forms of Mollusca possessed by their author, and afford strong 
evidence of the philosophical cast of his mind, and his talent in 
determining the zoological relations of obscure organisms. One of 
his most remarkable achievements in this line of research was his 
determination of the true affinities of the extinct family of Rudistes, 
published in the 11th volume of the ‘ Quarterly Journal of the 
Geological Society ;’ and the Society showed its appreciation of the 
merits and value of his memoir on that subject by awarding lim 
the proceeds of the Wollaston donation-fund in the year 1864; and 
again in 1857, on this account, and to assist him in his researches 
in the class Radiata, 
He was a Member of the Council of the Geological Society from 
1859, and had recently been appointed one of the Examiners in 
Geology and Paleontology to the University of London. 
Although his published works may, for a man of his acknowledged 
merit and position in the scientific world, appear to be small, they 
represent only a portion of the original work that he performed: 
many of the results he arrived at must unhappily have died with 
him, but others remain in the form of carefully prepared manuscripts, 
which his brothers entertain the hope of publishing. It may be a 
matter of surprise that he did so little in making known the results 
of his investigations; but for the last twenty years of his life he 
suffered from chronic asthma, which eventually became so distress- 
ing as to awaken the sympathies of all, and caused many to marvel 
at the energy he displayed in research and conversation during 
intervals of release from pain. 
An attack of acute bronchitis, which occasioned the rupture of an 
artery in the lungs, was the immediate cause of his death, at Herne 
Bay (whither he had gone in the hope of benefit to his health), on 
the 11th of July. 
