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wliicli he was held by men like Seilgwick, Darwin, Lyell, and Owen, 
not to mention other distinguished men of science, leave mo no 
loom to doubt that I do right in offering this tribute in memory of him 
to the ‘Transactions of the IS^orfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Societ 3 \’ 
I [is scientific works arc so well known to all Avho would be 
iuteicsted in them, that the list ajipended to this memoir vdll in 
most cases sufficiently indicate liis labours. My object will be to 
sketch some of the surroundings and circumstances of his life, 
that served to prompt his undertakings. 
Samuel Dickworth Woodward was the second son of Samuel 
AToodward of Norwich, and was born in Eriggs Lane, in that city, 
on tho^ 17th of September, 1821. llis father, at that date (and 
until his death in 1838) a clerk in Gurne 3 ''s’ Lank, was well known 
as an enthusiastic Naturalist, and especially for his researches into 
the Antupiities and Geology of Norfolk.*' 
In 1828, when seven years of age, S. P. AYoodward was placed 
at the Priory school, at Grayfriars (situated near tlie top of what 
is now the Prince of AVales’ Load, in Norwich), conducted by 
Air. AA’'illiam Lrooke, where he received a sound knowledge of Latin 
and Greek, besides the ordinary Englisli subjects. In 1831 his 
father removed to Grove Cottage, Lakeuham, A^dlere the remainiiK'- 
years of his childhood rvere spent. As a boy he often accompanied 
his father, his elder brother L. B. AVoodward, and their schooLfellow 
I. G. Bayfield, on country rvalks j sometimes to the crag-pits at 
Lramerton, Postwick, and Thorpe, at other times in search of plants 
on Mousehold, and on the heaths and marshes of St. Faith’s, 
IIor.sham ; and no doubt these excursions kindled the love of 
Natural History Avhich influenced his after-life. 
As before mentioned, entomology Avas his eailiest recreative 
science, and on one occasion he brought home some specimens of 
the Ilymenopterous insect Trichiosoma hicorum, a notice of Avhicli 
his father contributed to the ‘ Magazine of Natural History ’ on the 
IGth May, 1831, accompanied by a draAving (which Avas engraved) 
made by his little son, then nine and a half years of age, and entirely 
self-taught. + 
*A memoir of Samuel Woodward wa.s published in the Trans. Norfolk 
and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. .'503. 
f See Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. (1S32) p. 80. 
