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2. Observations on the Grenera of European Grasses, in 1837. — 



Transactions, vol. xviii. 



3. On Grepis biennis and JBarhhausia taraocacifolia, in 1841. — 



Ihid. vol. xix. 



4. An attempt to arrange the Carices of Middle Europe, in 



1844. — Ibid, vol. xix. 



5. Remarks on the Grenus Atriplex, in 1849. — Proceedings, yo\. ii. 



6. On the various Eorms of Salicornia, in 1851. — Ibid. vol. ii. 



7. Notice of his Botanical Notes made during a tour in France, 



in 1852. — Ibid. vol. ii. 



8. Notes of a Botanical Eamble in the North of Spain, in 1857. 



— Ibid., § Botany, vol. ii. 



Mr. Woods was for upvp^ards of sixty years a Fellow of this 

 Society, of which he lived to be nearly the oldest member. He 

 was also a Fellow of the Geological Society, of the Society of A.n- 

 tiquaries, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of 

 British Architects, now presided over by his old friend and fellow- 

 traveller, Professor Donaldson, to whose memoir, communicated 

 to the Institute in January last, we are indebted for much of the 

 information contained in this notice. 



His name will be perpetuated among botanists by the well- 

 marked genus of Ferns dedicated to him by the late Mr. Robert 

 Brown, in the 11th volume of our ' Transactions,' and so exquisitely 

 illustrated by drawings from the pencil of Francis Bauer ; by a 

 species of Bosa, appropriately named in honour of him by Dr. 

 Lindley, in his ' Rosarum Monographia ; ' and by the beautiful 

 Irish Jungermannia, first discovered by himself, and named after 

 him by Sir W. J. Hooker, in his admirable work on the British J^m- 

 germannicB, and also described and figured in the ' Supplement to 

 English Botany,' to which work he was a not unfrequent contributor. 



His favourite recreation was chess, a game in which his 

 very retentive memory was of immense advantage to him, and in 

 which he acquired so great a proficiency that, even down to the 

 close of his life, very few could cope with him. Painstaking and 

 laborious even in his amusements, he kept a record, forming three 

 thick octavo volumes, of many games played, about the years 1808- 

 1816, with Lewis, Sarratt, Cochrane, Samuda, and several of the 

 best players of his day, for most of whom he seems to have been 

 fully a match. These games were carefully analyzed, and their 

 possible variations worked out. For this purpose he invented a set 

 of symbols to represent the difierent pieces, which enabled him to 

 note their position and movements much more concisely than can 



