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  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  Fellows 
  deceased. 
  

  

  office 
  into 
  the 
  usual 
  second 
  year. 
  During 
  his 
  stay 
  in 
  Norfolk 
  he 
  was 
  

   President 
  of 
  the 
  Norwich 
  Geological 
  Society 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Norfolk 
  Naturalists' 
  

   Society, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  local 
  Science 
  Gossip 
  Club. 
  In 
  1896 
  he 
  was 
  

   elected 
  into 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  Society. 
  

  

  Of 
  Woodward's 
  many 
  works 
  one 
  may 
  select 
  three 
  books, 
  of 
  different 
  

   kinds, 
  as 
  sure 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  enduring 
  monument 
  of 
  his 
  geologic 
  ability 
  in 
  

   various 
  ways. 
  The 
  first 
  is 
  an 
  official 
  memoir, 
  vols, 
  iii-v, 
  of 
  ' 
  The 
  Jurassic 
  

   Eocks 
  of 
  Britain,' 
  published 
  in 
  1893-5, 
  which 
  gives 
  a 
  detailed 
  description 
  

   of 
  a 
  great 
  group 
  of 
  geologic 
  formations, 
  based 
  on 
  his 
  own 
  careful 
  examina- 
  

   tion, 
  coupled 
  with 
  an 
  exhaustive 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  other 
  observers. 
  

   The 
  second 
  was 
  written 
  for 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  learned 
  societies. 
  ' 
  The 
  History 
  

   of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  of 
  London,' 
  published 
  in 
  1907, 
  is 
  a 
  fine 
  addition 
  

   to 
  the 
  literature 
  and 
  history 
  of 
  geology, 
  as 
  evidenced 
  by 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  

   the 
  senior 
  geologic 
  society 
  of 
  the 
  world. 
  

  

  The 
  third 
  was 
  a 
  private 
  venture, 
  namely, 
  ' 
  The 
  Geology 
  of 
  England 
  and 
  

   Wales,' 
  first 
  published 
  as 
  a 
  comparatively 
  small 
  book. 
  The 
  second 
  and 
  

   greatly 
  enlarged 
  edition 
  (practically 
  a 
  new 
  book), 
  issued 
  in 
  1887 
  and 
  long 
  

   out 
  of 
  print, 
  shows 
  a 
  marvellous 
  acquaintance 
  with 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  geologists 
  

   in 
  the 
  country 
  with 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  concerned, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  great 
  power 
  in 
  

   codifying, 
  so 
  to 
  speak, 
  the 
  many 
  branches 
  of 
  that 
  work, 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  

   general 
  view 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  rocks 
  of 
  the 
  kingdom, 
  with 
  fitting 
  details, 
  and 
  with 
  

   references 
  to 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  original 
  work. 
  This 
  book 
  is 
  greatly 
  valued 
  not 
  

   only 
  by 
  geologists 
  but 
  also 
  by 
  engineers 
  or 
  others 
  who 
  are 
  concerned 
  with 
  

   the 
  practical 
  application 
  of 
  geology. 
  

  

  These 
  three 
  books 
  show 
  great 
  industry, 
  widespread 
  knowledge, 
  and 
  the 
  

   gift 
  of 
  doing 
  exactly 
  what 
  was 
  wanted. 
  The 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  was 
  fully 
  

   justified 
  in 
  entrusting 
  one 
  of 
  its 
  most 
  important 
  memoirs 
  to 
  Woodward. 
  

   The 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  was 
  also 
  justified 
  in 
  getting 
  him 
  to 
  

   undertake 
  the 
  arduous 
  task 
  of 
  writing 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  Woodward 
  

   himself 
  was 
  justified 
  in 
  undertaking 
  the 
  difficult 
  problem 
  of 
  producing 
  a 
  

   book 
  that 
  would 
  epitomize 
  the 
  geologic 
  record 
  of 
  England 
  and 
  Wales. 
  

  

  Besides 
  these 
  larger 
  books 
  he 
  was 
  also 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  several 
  others 
  : 
  

   ' 
  Memorial 
  of 
  John 
  Gunn,' 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  contribution 
  to 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  Norfolk 
  

   (1891); 
  'The 
  Geology 
  of 
  Water-Supply' 
  (1910); 
  'The 
  Geology 
  of 
  Soils 
  and 
  

   Substrata 
  ' 
  (1912) 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  short 
  ' 
  History 
  of 
  Geology' 
  (1911). 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  also 
  author 
  or 
  part 
  author 
  of 
  many 
  geological 
  survey 
  memoirs 
  

   on 
  various 
  districts, 
  notably 
  on 
  the 
  East 
  Somerset 
  and 
  Bristol 
  coal-fields 
  

   (1876), 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  country 
  around 
  Norwich 
  (1881); 
  and 
  of 
  course 
  also 
  

   of 
  many 
  sheets 
  of 
  the 
  map. 
  

  

  The 
  later 
  editions 
  of 
  Stanford's 
  1 
  Geological 
  Atlas 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  and 
  

   Ireland,' 
  making 
  it 
  an 
  indispensable 
  work 
  to 
  students 
  of 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  

   these 
  islands, 
  was 
  edited 
  by 
  him, 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  also 
  an 
  assistant 
  editor 
  of 
  the 
  

   ' 
  Geological 
  Magazine.' 
  Finally 
  he 
  contributed 
  many 
  papers, 
  addresses, 
  etc., 
  

   to 
  many 
  scientific 
  journals, 
  and 
  his 
  name 
  is 
  prominent 
  amongst 
  those 
  who 
  

   have 
  done 
  much 
  for 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  his 
  native 
  land. 
  W. 
  W. 
  

  

  