144 Obituary — Horace B. Woochuard. 



ilaasay, and was the first to point out the presence in llaasay of a bed 

 of iron-ore, which is now recognized to be of liijjh commerciul value. 



In 1893 he was appointed, on the death of Mr. William Topley, to 

 take charge of the GeoLi^ical Survey Office in Jermyn Street, London, 

 under Sir Archibald Geikie, and from that time the endless duties of 

 inspection, editing, and official correspondence left him little leisure 

 for original work. In time Horace Woodward's responsible position 

 was recognized and he became Assistant Director for England and 

 Wales; but this led to no lessening of the amount of routine work. 

 In his spare time he still worked hard, and to him we owe 

 the History of the Geological Society of London prepared for the 

 Centenary of 1907 (8vo, pp. xx, 336). Besides contributing to the 

 Scottish memoir on Glenelg, etc. (1910), he took the principal share 

 in the Water-supply memoirs of Lincolnshire (1904) and Bedfordshire 

 and North Hants (1909). He also wrote a memoir on the London 

 district (1909), and one on soils and subsoils which passed through 

 a second edition (1906). 



Mr. H irace Woodward was an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society, the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, and the 

 Essex Eield Club. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 of London, 1868; he served on the Council eleven years, and was 

 a Yice -President 1904-6. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society in 1896. 



The value of his work was recognized by the Geological Society 

 in the successive awards of the Murchison Geological Fund in 1885, 

 the Murchison Medal in 1897, and the Wollaston Medal in 1909. 

 Mr. Horace Woodward was President of the Geologists' Association 

 1893-4. 



He married Miss Alice Jennings at Dorking, on June 5, 1873; 

 she died in 1902. He leaves one daughter, now married (Mrs. Sydney 

 Barnwell). 



During the last five years Mr. Horace Woodward has suffered 

 severely at times from an internal malady, but in spite of his draw- 

 backs his Spartan courage enabled him to continue his literary 

 labours, and he brought out the following works : E. Stanford's 

 Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland (1907, pp. x, 160, 

 explanatory and descriptive geology with numerous maps and 

 illustrations; a third edition, including the Channel Islands, has 

 just appeared); The Geology of Water Supply (Arnold's Geological 

 Series, 1910, 8vo, pp. x, 340); The Geology of Soils and Substrata 

 (1912, pp. xvi, 366); and, jointly with Dr. Henry Woodward, 

 a Table of British Strata (Dulau & Co.). He also contributed the 

 geological chapters to several volumes of the Victoria County 

 Histories. As Assistant Editor of the Gkological Magazine he has 

 for many years written very numerous reviews and notices of current 

 geological literature up to the last. 



Mr. Woodward died at his residence, 85 Coombe Road, Croydon, 

 on Friday, February 6, 1914, and was interred at Brookwood on 

 February 10. His memory is warmly cherished by his colleagues on 

 the Geological Survey and by a large circle of geologists both in the 

 Geological Society and the Geologists' Association. C. R. 



