THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. IV. 



No. IX.— SEPTEMBER, 1897. 



OIRXGrXJ^Ji^Xj .A^I^TICLES. 



I. — A Western Australian Geologist : 



Harry Page Woodward, J.P., F.G.S., Assoc. M. lust. C.E., F.E.G.S ; 



Honorary Consulting Geologist and Mining Engineer to the Colony of "Western 



Australia. 



(WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE XVIII.) 



EVERYTHING relating to the progress of geology in our Colonies 

 is, or ought to be, of interest to geologists at home ; and those 

 M^ho have helped forward this movement are also deserving of 

 recognition and commendation here. The subject of the present 

 notice has left his hammer-marks on the rocks of Western 

 Australia, and has covered many thousand miles on horseback, on 

 foot, b}^ rail and steamboat, from north to south and from east to 

 west of this great region, containing an estimated area of 976,000 

 square miles, being about nine times that of the United Kingdom, 

 and covering about one-third of the whole Australian Continent. 



Harry Page Woodward was born at Norwich, May 16, 1858. 

 and is the son of Dr. Henry Woodward, F.K.S., V.P.G.S., Keeper of 

 the Geological Department in the British Museum (Natural History) ; 

 and grandson of Mr. Samuel Woodward, of Norwich, the well-known 

 geologist and antiquary ; so that he represents the third of a line of 

 geologists, and belongs to a family in which uncles and cousins are 

 also noted men of science. After being educated at University 

 College School, London, he studied geology with Professor Judd in 

 the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, and field-work with 

 his cousin, Mr. Horace B. Woodward, F.R.S., of the Geological Survey 

 of England and Wales. In 1883 he was appointed, upon tlie 

 recommendation of Sir A. Geikie and Professor J. W. Judd, C.B., 

 Assistant Government Geologist to the Colony of South Australia. 

 Here, under that able geologist Mr. Henry Y. Lyell Brown, F.G.S., 

 the Government Geologist for South Australia, he served for three 

 and a quarter years, covering a large mileage area, and making- 

 several reports on the goldfields and other regions of that 

 Colony. He also served for some time as geologist on the 

 Boundary Commission between New South Wales and South Aus- 

 tralia, and saw a great extent of the interior of the country". During 

 his residence in South Australia, H. P. Woodward visited Melbourne 

 and inspected the principal mines at Ballaarat and other places 

 in the colony of Victoria. In 1886 he returned to London and 



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