THE 
GHOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 
VOLUME LVIII. 
No. XIL—NOVEMBER, 1921. 
OBITUARY. 
Henry Wocdward. 
BoRN 24TH NOVEMBER, 1832. DIED 6TH SEPTEMBER, 1921. 
Henry Woopwarp was born at Norwich on 24th November, 1832, 
the youngest son of Samuel Woodward, the well-known geologist 
and antiquary. His father died when he was 6 years old, and his 
early life was spent under difficult circumstances. He was educated 
at the Norwich Grammar Schoo! until the age of 14, when he left to 
accompany his brother, Samuel Pickworth Woodward, to Cirencester, 
where the latter was beginning his career as Professor of Natural 
History in the Royal Agricultural College. Henry Woodward was 
by inclination a naturalist’from the beginning, and at Cirencester 
he had the opportunity of making systematic studies. In 1848 he 
removed to London with his brother, wke was then appointed 
assistant in the Geological Department of the British Museum. 
Here he attempted to obtain congenial occupation, which would at 
the same time maintain him, but in 1851 he felt obliged to return 
to Norwich, where he spent seven years as a clerk in Gurney’s Bank. 
At last, in 1858, he realized his ambition, and became an assistant 
in the Geological Department of the British Museum, of which he 
was eventually Keeper from 1880 until 1901. 
As an officer of the British Museum, Henry Woodward devoted 
himself most assiduously to curatorial work, and when the collection 
of fossils was removed to South Kensington at the beginning of 
his Keepership, he planned and supervised the whole of the 
rearrangement in the new building. He made the public galleries 
more attractive by adding illustrative diagrams and descriptive 
labels, and he improved the guide-hooks by providing them with 
figures of important specimens. He also increased the value of the 
collections for the progress of science by planning and editing a 
series of catalogues, among which may be specially mentioned 
Etheridge and Carpenter’s Blastoidea, Hinde’s Fossil Sponges, 
Smith Woodward’s Fossil Fishes, and Lydekker’s Fossil Reptiles, 
Birds, and Mammals. His genial personality and helpful ways 
attracted an increasing number of scientific visitors, and as a result 
of his efforts the extent and scope of the collections enlarged with 
greater rapidity than at any previous time. He acquired not only 
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