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of his life was thus spent in oflScial harness, for he did not retire 

 until the end of 1908. 



His Survey work was so varied that it is difficult to give a connected 

 account of it. In his early life he worked much under Mr. H. W. 

 Bristow, F.R.S., in Somerset and various other districts. He took 

 part in the first Drift Survey of the London area ; but he was before 

 long transferred to the disturbed rocks of the Somersetshire Coal-field. 

 Then he was engaged on the Palaeozoic and Secondary rocks of Devon 

 and Somerset ; this varied experience assisting him greatly in the 

 preparatiou of his very useful Geology of England a7id Walex} In 

 Devon the writer joined him, and he has reason to remember Horace 

 Woodward's kind help and patience with the inexperienced ; he never 

 tired of assisting those who worked with him, and this was a most 

 striking characteristic till the end of his life. 



Much of this early work by Horace Woodward is unpublished, or 

 has only lately appeared, for after several years in Devon, Somerset, 

 and Dorset, he was transferred to Norfolk and jS^orwich, leaving the 

 Devon maps to be completed by Mr. W. A. E. Ussher and others. 

 He was, however, the chief author of the memoir on the East 

 Somerset and Bristol Coal-fields, published in 1876. 



In Norwich he spent a good many years, probably some of the 

 happiest in his life. He was in the native city of his grandfather, 

 his father, and uncles, and he liked to recall the connexion of his 

 family with the county, for his grandfather, Samuel Woodward, had 

 been one of the earliest writers on that country, and had published 

 the Geologn of Norfolk m 1833. Here also, after his recovery from 

 a serioiis illness which had interfei'ed with his work for some time, 

 he was again able thoroughly to enjoy the open-air life. He was 

 in his element leading a geological excursion, presiding at some 

 meeting for popularizing science, or discussing geological questions 

 with his colleagues, several of whom were then working in the 

 eastern counties. The principal result of his stay in Norfolk is seen 

 in the accurate geological maps, and in his Geology of Norwich, of 

 Fahenham, Wells, a?id Holt, and other memoirs; but in his leisure he 

 was already collecting material for a second edition of his valuable 

 work, the Geology of Etigland a7id Wales.- 



During his residence in Norwich he was President of the Norwich 

 Science Gossip Club and of the Norwich Geological Society. At 

 a later period he was President of the Norfolk Naturalists' Society. 



Among his other publications he wrote Metnorials ofi^Rev.) John 

 Gimn, formerly Rector of Irstead (1891). whose remarkable 

 collection of Forest Bed Pleistocene Mammalia from the Norfolk 

 coast now adorn tlie Norwich Castle Museum. 



His Tiext extensive piece of work was the writing of three volumes 

 of a memoir on the Jurassic Hocks of Britain, which necessitated 

 several years spent in visiting the numerous exposures; but tliis 

 work was much hindered by official calls, which every year became 

 more pressing. He was able, however, at intervals, after 1892, to aid 

 in the mapping of the Jurassic strata in Scotland, including Skye and 



' 8vo, Longmans (1876), pp. xx, 476. 



2 1887, Geo. Philip and Son, 8vo, pp. 16, 670, with maps and illustrations. 



