142 Obituary — Horace B. Woochvard. 



retained until 1895, when he retired on a pension. While in the 

 Museum he prepared ten Yolumes of the Catalogue upon Colubrine 

 Snakes, Batrachia, and Fishes. He also published " The Reptiles of 

 British India", "Shore Fish", "Deep Sea Fishes", and " Pelagic 

 Fishes" in the Challenger Reports; and an "Introduction to the 

 Study of Fishes". In 1880 he took charge of the removal of the 

 Zoological Collections from the British Museum, Bloomsbury, to 

 the New Natural History Museum in Cromwell Road. 



In 1864 Dr. Gunther founded the Zoological Record,^ an annual 

 publication. He was also onp of the editors for more than thirty 

 years of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. So long ago 

 as September, 1864, Dr. Giinther contributed a paper on "A New 

 Fossil Fish from the Lower Chalk, PUnthophorus robustus, Gthr." 

 (Geol. Mag., Vol. I, pp. 114-18, PL YI, 1864), and in 1876 "On 

 the Fish Fauna of the Tertiary Deposits of the Highlands of 

 Padang, Sumatra" (Geol. Mag., Dec. II, Yol. Ill, pp. 433-40, 

 Pis. XV-XIX). 



Dr. Gunther was elected to the Royal Society in 1867, became 

 a Vice-President 1875-6, and received a Royal Medal in 1878. He 

 was President of Biologv, British Association, 1880; President of 

 the Linn^an Society 1898-1901, F.Z.S. in 1862, and V.P.Z.S. 

 1874-1905. 



He married, first, in 1868, Roberta Macintosh, of St. Andrews 

 (who died in 1869); second, 1879, Theodora Dawrish, daughter of 

 Henry Holman Drake, of Fowey, Cornwall, who survives him. His 

 eldest son, Mr. R. T. Gunther, is a Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, and is distinguished as a zoologist, geographer, and 

 antiquarian. 



Dr. Gunther died on February 1, 1914, in his 84th year at 

 2 Lichfield Road, Kew Gardens, leaving behind him a splendid record 

 of biological work accomplished during his long and strenuous life. 



HORACE BOLINGBROKE WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Born August 20, 1848. Died February 6, 1914. 



(WITH A PORTEAIT.) 



When death severs a friendship of forty years it is difficult to form 

 a true estimate of the friend's lifework, and this is specially difficult 

 in the case of H. B. Woodward, whose life was more generously spent 

 in aiding others than in those original researches which might 

 permanently establish his reputation. 



Born in London in 1848, the son of Dr. S. P. Woodward, F.G.S. ,=* 

 of the Department of Geology in the British Museum (1848-65), 

 Horace was educated in a private school, and in 1863 was appointed 

 assistant to the Secretary, Mr. H. M. Jenkins, at the Geological 

 Society, Somerset House. This position he did not hold for long, 

 being appointed in 1867, at the age of 1'9, an Assistant Geologist on the 

 Geological Survey, under Sir Roderick Murchison. The greater part 



^ Still continued by a Committee of the Zoological Society. 

 2 See Obituary, Geol. Mag., August, 1865, pp. 383-4. 



