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were provided, marks the initiation of the science of Seismology, 

 and his seismograph, which was subsequently distributed over the 

 world, differed only from that which he had brought home in minor 

 details and in being of better workmanship. No less far-reaching 

 were his researches on the distinction between vibrations which 

 travel round the globe and those which are transmitted through 

 it, or the practical application of his knowledge to the causes of 

 fracturing of submarine cables, and of collapse of buildings in 

 earthquake regions. Whether as an original investigator or as a 

 personal friend, Milne leaves a gap which it is difficult indeed to 



ail. 



Horace Bolixgbroke Woodward was the son of Dr. S. P. 

 Woodward, of the British Museum, and Avas born on August 20th, 

 1848., He was educated at private schools, and at the age of 15 

 commenced what was destined to be a distinguished geological 

 career by undertaking the duties of Assistant in the Library and 

 Museum of the Geological Society. In 1867 he was appointed to 

 the Geological Survey under Sir E. Murchison, and continued in 

 that service until December 31st, 1908, a period of 41 years, 

 during the last seven and a half of which he was, as Assistant 

 Director, in charge of the work in England and Wales. 



At the commencement of his service, the Old Series 1-inch 

 Geological Map was far from complete, and his work lay at first in 

 the south-west, where he was engaged in adding detail and pre- 

 cision to the mapping of the Secondary Rocks, especially of the 

 Bhaetic Beds. Later on he was stationed for many years in 

 the Eastern Counties, where he was concerned with Cretaceous 

 and Tertiary strata and the great development of Pleistocene 

 deposits in that part of the country. The results of his work 

 appeared in the Memoir on the East Somerset and Bristol Coal- 

 fields, published in 1876, and in the Memoirs on the Geology of 

 Norwich (1881), of Fakenham (1884), and others of which he was 

 part author. 



In 1890 the Geological Survey commenced the publication of 

 General Memoirs presenting a compendium of all that is known 

 regarding each of the formations in its distribution throughout the 

 United Kingdom. The task of carrying out the part of this great 

 project that related to the Jurassic rocks of Britain (not in- 

 cluding Yorkshire, which was undertaken by C. Fox-Strangways) 

 was entrusted to Woodward, and before the end of 1895 there had 



