998 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Microscope had lost so efficient and earnest a worker, one wlio liad 

 not only done excellent work himself, but who had set going a great 

 many other workers in the same direction. Dr. Woodward had in 

 addition to his microscopic studies worked very hard in his depart- 

 ment until some time ago having met with a serious accident, he 

 showed some signs of paralysis. Just about that time President Gar- 

 field required his services and the great strain and anxiety thus placed 

 upon him proved too much for him in his state of health. 



Dr. Maddox said perhaps he might be allowed to say a kindly 

 word concerning one whose friendship he had valued highly, and 

 with whom he had corresponded for many years upon those subjects 

 which had rendered his name famous in the history of photo-micro- 

 graphy. He used to write so freely upon matters of mutual interest 

 and explained his methods and processes of manipulation so fully, and 

 always with so much courtesy, that he felt that he had indeed lost a 

 friend, and he wished to take the opportunity of recording the respect 

 in which he held the memory of one to whom he had so largely been 

 indebted. 



Mr. Beck did not like to let the opportunity pass of making the 

 suggestion that steps should be taken to secure a good obituary 

 notice of Dr. Woodward in their next annual report. The notice read 

 by the Secretary was, he believed, the one which appeared in the 

 ' Times ' newspaper, which, though good as far as it went, yet could 

 not, in that brief compass, give an idea of the genial character of the 

 man, and his high personal qualities. He had known him for thirteen 

 years, and whenever during that period he went to Washington there 

 was always a warm welcome and every assistance which he required. 

 Though Dr. Woodward's labours were very great at the Army and 

 Navy Museum, he found time to carry out a large number of researches, 

 the results of which they had so often seen. He had the advantage 

 of working under a liberal Government, who provided him with 

 apparatus suited to his requirements, and he thus possessed a magni- 

 ficent collection of object-glasses which he knew well how to use, as 

 the beauty of his photographs abundantly testified. These photo- 

 graphs he took a pleasure in showing and he had an ingenious 

 contrivance at the museum for enabling the public to see them.* 



* Since the meeting the following obituary notice of Dr. Woodward has been 

 received. 



" War Department, Surgeon-General's Office, 

 Washington, D.C., August 20, 1884. 



In announcing to the OfiScers of the Medical Department the death of Joseph 

 Janvier Woodward, Surgeon and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. Army, which 

 occurred near Philadelphia, Pa., August 17, 1884, the Surgeon-General wishes to 

 offer his tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, whose distinguished 

 career and valuable services, for a period of twenty-three years, have shed lustre 

 on the corps, and for whose untimely loss feelings of iDrofound regret will be 

 shared alike by his comrades in arms and by the profession at large. 



Dr. Woodward was born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 30, 1833, and was 

 educated at the Central High School of that city, graduating with honour as 

 Bachelor of Arts in 1850, and receiving the degree of Master of Arts from the 

 same institution in 1855. 



He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, April 1858; 



