482 Obituary—Henry Woodward. 
an immense mass of material for research, but also numerous 
particularly fine specimens which would be instructive for the 
public exhibition. Among the more important acquisitions were 
Williamson’s Carboniferous Plants, Davidson’s Brachiopods, 
Nicholson’s Stromatoporoids, Stiirtz’s Devonian Starfishes, Egerton 
and Enniskillen’s Fishes, Lewis’ Lebanon Fishes, Leeds’ Oxtfordian 
Reptiles, and Forsyth Major's Phocene Mammals from Samos. 
In 1864 Henry Woodward jomed Professor T. Rupert Jones in 
founding the GEoLoGgicaL MaGazine, and from July, 1865, until the 
end of 1918 he was sole editor. It is unnecessary to refer to the 
influence of this serial on the progress of research—it is sufficient to 
repeat the common saying that almost every British recruit to 
geology since 1864 has begun authorship in its pages. Under 
Woodward’s judicious and tactful editorial direction, it always 
welcomed and published honest work, whether on orthodox lines 
or otherwise; and it afforded a medium for discussion not to be 
found elsewhere. If his well-laid plans and methods are followed, 
the Macaztne cannot fail to continue its usefulness—provided, of 
course, that the new generation is willing to give it the same financial 
support as its predecessors. 
Soon after he joined the stati of the British Museum, Henry Wood- 
ward began to write notes on newly acquired fossils, which were of 
general interest. Among these his account of the primitive 
Jurassic bird, Archaeopteryx, in the Intellectual Observer for 1862, 
must be specially mentioned. After the foundation of the 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAzInE, most of his notes were contributed to its 
pages, and one of these, in the first volume, on the skull of a 
mammoth found at Ilford, is particularly memorable. In this 
communication the first well-preserved skull of an English mammoth 
is noticed, and as soon as the specimen was mounted in 1868 he 
pointed out the true inward curvature of the tusks, which showed 
that in the published figures of the Siberian mammoth in Petrograd 
the tusks were reversed. In 1869 he wrote on the peaty deposits in 
the Lea valley, in which numerous Holocene mammalian remains 
had just been found. In this, and in a later paper, published by the 
Essex Field Club in 1882, he emphasized the geological importance 
of the work of beavers, both in the Lea valley and in the Fenland. 
In 1874, in a paper read before the Geological Society, he discussed 
the fossil links between birds and reptiles, and referred to the foot- 
vrints of bipedal reptiles in the lithographic stone of Solenhofen, 
Bavaria. In 1885, to the same Society, he gave an account of a 
skeleton of the gigantic extinct Sirenian, Rhytina, which had recently 
been acquired by the British Museum. 
Henry Woodward’s chief contributions to science, however, were 
his descriptive memoirs and papers on fossil Crustacea and other 
Arthropods, on which he became a leading authority. ‘The first of 
his long series of original papers, on a new macrurous Crustacean 
from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, was published by the Geological 
