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as observed by Sir E-oderick Murchison, of tlie boreal regions, iti 

 wbicb so many years of bis life had been passed ; but beneath 

 this exterior was a warm and feeling heart, and no one was more 

 ready than he to aid to the utmost of his power those who, his 

 close and cautious powers of observation and discrimination 

 (though perhaps silently exercised) showed him, were worthy of 

 his countenance. 



Samuel P. Woodward, F.G.S., the son of Mr. Samuel "Wood- 

 ward, of Norwich, was born on the 17th of September, 1821, and 

 died at Heme Bay July 11th, 1865. 



Almost always in weak health, and very frequently in a state 

 of great suffering from an asthmatic affection, the amount of sci- 

 entific work performed by Mr. "Woodward in his short life is very 

 surprising. Devoted to the study of natural history, it may be 

 said he showed his aptitude for it even from his infancy ; for he 

 assisted, when he had scarcely attained the age of 10 years, in 

 publishing an account of Trichiosoma lucorum in the ' Magazine 

 of Natural History,' with an engraving of the insect in aU its 

 stages. In the following year he began the study of land and 

 freshwater shells, and commenced the formation of his father's 

 collection. To these pursuits he soon added the study of botany, 

 after which entomology was given up, and he devoted his whole 

 attention to botany and malacology. 



In 1838 he came to London to complete his education at the 

 London University College, and soon obtained an appointment in 

 the Library of the British Museum. In 1839 he succeeded Mr. 

 Searles "Wood in the post of Subcurator of the Greological So- 

 ciety, the duties of which office necessarily compelled him to add 

 palaeontology to his other studies. This post he continued to 

 occupy, with the utmost credit to himself and satisfaction to the' 

 Society, tiU 1848, when he obtained the appointment of Assistant 

 in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy in the British 

 Museum. In 1845 his scientific merits were so well appreciated 

 that he was selected to fill the Chair of Botany and Natural His- 

 tory including Greology at the Eoyal Agricultural College at Ci- 

 rencester; and to this were subsequently added the appointments 

 of Examiuer for the Council of Military Education, and of Exa- 

 miner in Geology to the University of London. Dr. "Woodward, 

 though not a contributor to our publications, was the author of 

 numerous papers in various scientific and literary periodicals, for 

 the most part on palseontological, geological, and more especially 

 malacozoological subjects, displaying in all he wrote the utmost 



