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and ill conjunction witli the licv. Thomas "Wiltshire, the energetic 
secretary, he was to take part in a monograph on the Cretaceous 
Molluaca (exclusive of the Brachiopoda, which !Mr. Davidson had 
described). Thi.s joint work was proposed by Mr. "Wiltshire in 
18G.3, but my father did not live to fulfil his portion of the under- 
taking. At one time he contemplated the publication of a manual 
of tlie Badiata, as a companion-work to his book on the Mollusca : 
this likewise was not carried out, and his large collection of 
Kchinodermatawas afterwards purchased for the Kdinburgh ^ruseum. 
Another -work on ‘ British Fossil Shells ’ ivas also at one time 
advertised by Lovell Beevo to be prepared by him. 
In 18G1, however, he assisted Professor Owen in Ins work on 
I’ala^ontology, first published in the ‘ Encyclopanlia Britannica,’ 
who acknowledges (p. Il l) that “ for the drawings and most of the 
facts or their verification, relating to invertebrate fossils, the writer 
is indebted to his experienced colleague in charge of that depart- 
ment of the British ^Museum, !^^r. S. P. Woodward, F.G.S.” 
Professor Jforris, too, records his assistance in his ‘ Catalogue of 
Ih’itish Fossils,’ and Lycll took frequent occasion to consult him on 
palaiontological mattera in the preparation of his celebrated 
Avorks. 
Numerous species, both recent and fossil, have been named in 
honour of him, chielly Mollusca, Echinodermata, and plants. 
In 1848 ho discovered at Stratton St. [Margaret’s, near Swindon, 
some “ puzzling specimens ” of a Thistle, Avhich were described and 
temporarily distinguished as Cardiais WoodicartUi* And in 18GG 
a new mineral, a hydrous sulphate of aluminium and copper, 
occurring usually in lilue rippled incrustations, discovered by 
]\rr. Bichard Tailing in Cornwall, Avas analyzed by Professor 
A. H. Church, and named in his memory WoodAvardite.f 
Xor were his merits unacknowledged in other Avays. In 18G0 he 
Avas elected an honorary member of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society, and in 18G2 a foreign associate of the Zoologico-Botanical 
Society of Vienna. On October 9th, 18G4, Dr. Wilhelm Keferstein 
(Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Museum at 
Giittingen) Avrote to inform him that the Philosophical Faculty of 
Cybele Britannica,’ by II. C. Watson, vol. ii. (1849) p. S.3. 
+ .Journ. Cheni. Soc. vol. iv. p. 130 ; Geol. Mag. vol. iii. p. 190. 
