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British lierbarium (which must have contained some interesting 

 varieties, now no longer to be found in the neighbourhood of Lon- 

 don) having been, some years before, presented to his old friend 

 Mr. Bicheno, by whom, on his leaving England for Van Diemen's 

 Land, it was given to the JN'atural History Society of Swansea. 

 This British herbarium Mr. Woods subsequently endeavoured, as 

 far as possible, to replace ; while his foreign collection was greatly 

 augmented during several successive visits to the Continent, in 

 which, though he did not by any means ignore architecture, he 

 gradually came to regard botany as his profession — one which, if 

 it did not produce any income, had at least the advantage, to an 

 invalid, of enabling him to study when the state of liis health 

 would permit, and to relax so soon as he found it painful. The 

 botanical notes made during these continental excursions, and in 

 others made within the British Islands, Avere comnuuiicated either 

 to this Society, to Sir "VV. J. Hooker for publication in the ' Com- 

 panion to the Botanical Magazine ' (viz. " Botanical Excursion in 

 the North of England in 1835," and "Account of a Botanical 

 Excursion into Brittany in 1S3G "), or to the ' Phytologist/ in the 

 successive volumes of which appear, " Notes of a Botanical Ex- 

 cursion in Eranee in 1843 " (vol. i.) ; " Notes of a Botanical Tour 

 in Germany in 1844 " (vol. ii.) ; " Notes of a Botanical Excursion 

 in Hants in 1849 " (vol. iii.) ; " Letter to E. Brown, Esq., P.L.S., 

 containing Botanical Memoranda of a Visit to Erance in 1851 " 

 (vol. iv.) ; " On the Botany of the Great Orme's Head, Caernar- 

 von, in 1855" (new ser., vol. i.) ; and " Some Botanical Notes made 

 during a Tour through a part of Ireland in 1855 " (new ser., vol. i.). 



His last journey on the. Continent was made in the summer of 

 1857, when he was already upAvards of 80 years of age ; and the 

 results, under the title of " Notes of a Botanical Ramble in the 

 North of Spain," were read before the Linnean Society in Novem- 

 ber 1857, and published in the second volume of its ' Journal.' 



The infirm state of his health continuing to unfit him for the 

 struggle of business-life, and being possessed of some independent 

 means, he at length resolved to quit the profession of an architect, 

 and, having disposed of the greater part of his valuable library, 

 finally left London, and went to reside with his maiden sister at 

 Lewes, in Sussex. Here he remained during the last thirty years 

 of his life, devoting much of his time to the investigation of the 

 botany of the county, a pursuit which naturally brought him into 

 frequent communication Avith the late Mr. William Borrer, with 

 whom he had long kept up an active correspondence, and whose* 



