part 1] AISTNIVEESAKT ADDEESS OF THE PRESIDEIfT. xlv^ 



THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

 Richard Dixon Oldham, F.R.S. 



By the death, on September 6th last, of Henry Woodward, w& 

 lose a Fellow of standing and distinction, who was for long a 

 regular attendant, and familiar figure, at our meetings. Born at 

 Norwich on November 24th, 1832, son of Samuel Woodward, well 

 known in his day as an antiquary and geologist, he was a naturalist 

 by disposition from the beginning. After a varied experience in 

 his earliest years, he was appointed an assistant in the Oeological 

 Department of the British Museum in 1858, an appointment 

 which he retained, with promotion to Keeper in 1880, until his. 

 retirement in 1901. In 1864 he found a further outlet for his. 

 energy in the foundation of the ' Geological Magazine,' in con- 

 junction with the late Prof. T. Rupert Jones, and was sole 

 editor from the succeeding year until the end of 1918. In the 

 November number of that Magazine Avill be found a notice of his 

 jjublished contributions to Palaeontology and Geology, principally 

 dealing with fossil Crustacea ; by these he will probabl}^ be best 

 knoAvn to our successors, but those who worked with him are aware 

 that, however valuable ihej may be, by no means the least service 

 which he rendered was the opportunity given for the j)ublication of 

 the Avork of others, by the conduct and continuance of the 

 Magazine founded in 1864. Hardly a geologist of any standing 

 but has at one time or another found in it a channel of publi- 

 cation, often in those early years when other avenues were still un- 

 opened. Under his editorship the Magazine has always welcomed 

 the expression of novel interpretations of observation, even when at 

 variance Avith opinions commonly accepted, and in this way, no less. 

 than by numerous records of original investigations, the Magazine 

 has served geology well in the past, as doubtless it will continue ta 

 do in the future. 



In the same year, 1864, he. was elected a Fellow of our Society,, 

 and in the course of his Fellowship gave twenty-seven A^ears to 

 the Council, was three times Vice-President, and once President ; 

 his services were further recognized by the award, in succession,, 

 of the Wollaston and Lyell Funds, and of the Murchison and 

 Wollaston Medals. He Avas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1873, received the Honorary degree of LL.D. from the- 



