THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECAD E VI. VOL. II. 



No. I.— JANUARY, 1915. 



OJEtTG-XJST^IL, .A.ZR.TIOLEJS. , 



I. — Eminent Living Geologists. '^^ ;fl<» WlUj^ 



Arthur Smith "Woodward, LL.D. (St. Andrews, Glasgow), F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., Keeper of the Department of 

 Geology, British Museum (Natural History). 



(WITH A POBTEAIT, PLATE I.) 



IN presenting a portrait and offering to the readers of the 

 Geological Magazine a brief memoir of Dr. Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, my namesake and successor in the Geological Department 

 of the British Museum (Natural History), I feel that no apology is 

 needed, inasmuch as every lover of our science will be glad to possess 

 a record of one of its leading men whom he may have met already, 

 and known generally, but may wish for a more personal acquaintance, 



which this sketch is intended to furnish. -□- -„,- 



Henry Woodward. 



Arthur Smith "Woodward was born at Macclesfield on May 23, 1864, 

 and began in his early school-days to take a keen interest in natural 

 science. His special bent towards geology was fostered by the 

 teaching of the Bev. S. G. "Waters at the Macclesfield Grammar 

 School and by the facilities the district afforded for practical work in 

 the field. His inclination towards the study of fossils was also 

 increased by an annual holiday at Llandudno, within reach of the 

 Carboniferous Limestone of the Great Orme's Head. In 1880 he 

 proceeded to the Owens College, Yictoria University of Manchester, 

 where he came under the influence of Professor Boyd Dawkins, and 

 in 1882 he obtained by competitive examination a Second Class 

 Assistantship in the Geological Department of the British Museum, 

 under the Keepership of Dr. Henry Woodward. 



Since 1882 Dr. Smith "Woodward's scientific activities have centred 

 entirely in the Geological Department of the British Museum, of 

 which he became Assistant-keeper (in succession to Mr. Bobert 

 Etheridge, F.B.S.) in 1892 and Keeper (in succession to Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, E.B.S.) in 1901. He began his career in immediate 

 association with Mr. William Davies, who was Assistant in special 

 charge of the fossil Yertebrata, and during' the whole of his period of 

 service he has devoted himself particularly to the study of Vertebrate 

 Palaeontology. 



In 1883 the Swiney Lecturer at the British Museum was Dr. B. H. 

 Traquair, F.B.S. , who selected Fossil Fishes as his subject, and 

 expounded the general principles to which his own exhaustive 



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