﻿480 Obituary — Edivard Wood. 



It may be in yoiir remembrance that I tbrew doubts upon the 

 preglacial age of this deposit in the paper which I read at the meet- 

 ing of the British Association at Norwich in 1868.' 



Harlton, Cambridge. 0. FlSHEK. 



OBITTJ.^I^"5r, 



EDWARD WOOD, J. P., F.G.S. 



Born May 24, 1808. Died August 16, 1877. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Edward Wood, of Eichmond, 

 Yorkshire, President of the Mechanics' Institute, and of the Eich- 

 mond Naturalists' Field-club, of which he was also the founder. 



For more than thirty years Mr. Wood devoted his best efforts to the 

 promotion of Natural Science, especially Geolog}'', and he expended 

 considerable sums of money and much personal labour in forming 

 what is allowed to be the finest private collection of Mountain 

 Limestone fossils in England. Many of the Brachiopoda have af- 

 forded the types for Mr. Thomas Davidson's splendid Monograph in 

 the Palseontographical Society's publications. Prof. L. de Koninck, 

 of Liege, has also figured many of his fine Carboniferous Crinoids, 

 the best of which, perhaps, has been named after its discoverer 

 Woodocrinus. To Mr. Wood's liberality is due the foundation of a 

 Museum of Natural History in Eichmond. For many years he 

 undertook the pleasant and instructive task, at his own charge, of 

 taking large parties of his fellow-townsmen to all the prominent 

 geological localities within fifty miles. In promoting education 

 among the young, Mr. Wood was always very active. In 1862, he 

 took 100 poor boys from Eichmond to London, and at his own 

 expense conducted them daily to the Exhibition and elsewhere. 



Mr. Wood was always most earnest and sincere in advocating the 

 cause of Science ; for many years he endeavoured, by the intro- 

 duction of Science-lectures in his native town, to raise up a taste 

 for intellectual pursuits among his felloAv-townsmen. His loss will 

 be greatly felt by a large circle of friends to whom he was endeared, 

 not so much perhaps on account of his scientific attainments, as for 

 •his social worth and the kindliness of his disposition to all, even the 

 humblest of his fellows. 



CoLOTJBiNG OF OoLiTic EocKS. — Mr. Judd has pointed out that 

 when dug at great depths or otherwise obtained at points where they 

 have not been exposed to atmospheric influences, all the Oolitic 

 rocks exhibit an almost uniform deep-blue tint, which is apparently 

 communicated to them by a diffusion through their substance of 

 small quantities of sulphide of iron. — H. B. Woodward, Geology of 

 England and Wales, p. 188. 



Erratum. — In Mr. J. E. Dakyns's article, August number, p. 349, 

 line 4, insert "seen" before "above." 



1 See Geol. Mag. Vol. V. p. 544, and Brit. Assoc. Kep. Norwich, 1868. 



