;}ui 
and Uio niplui'o of an ailuiy in tho lung.s, occasioned hy over- 
oxcrtion at this Kentish watering-place, was tho immediate cause of 
Ids passing awa}' on tho lllh July, when lie was not quite forty- 
lour years of ago. 
J hero is no need to recount the many ex'pressions of regret which 
were made, and felt, l;y a largo circle of scientilic friemls, several 
of wiioni paid a last tribute of respect at tho funeral at iri<duMto 
Cmnctery. ° ° 
ihe Ihosident ot tho Geological Society (^[r. \V. J. Hamilton, 
KR.S.) observed in bis address (18(50), that “by his death the 
Society has experienced a very serious loss. His smmd knowledge 
and a.ssistanco, both as a naturalist and a p da-ontologist, were 
always at the service of tho Society or of its Fellows.” 
riio I’resident of tlio Linncan Society (Professor 15u.sk, F.Ii.S.), 
while deploring his early death, spoke of his “amiable and modest 
demeanour, and tho readiness witli which ho was at all times willing 
t'» aid those who might seek his assistance,” adding that ho displayed 
in all he n-roto the utmost acuteness of observation, combined 
■with tho most minute attention to accuracy and truth.” 
In this attempt to sketch tho principal circumstances of the life 
of S. ]>. Wooilward, and tho chief scientific labours which have 
tended to make his name known to students of Katural History, 
I have, however, but barely alluded to those other literary work.s 
which ho left behind him, tho now lost-sight-of essays and reviews 
which were printed in the ‘ Critic’ and some other periodicals.'- 
'J'o use his own words “the best memorial of a literary man is a 
selection from the articles ho may have contributed to periodical 
htemture. Such fugitive i»ieces are usually more spontaneous, and 
exhibit the writer’s leclings and sentiments more truly than works 
of deliberate character and higher pretensions.” f 
His own revioAvs truly give an insight to his .sentiments which 
the purely scientific papers could not yield. In the latter we have 
tJ>e reviews of scientific books in the ‘Critic,’ between March 
f ?. woodward ; other reviews 
appeared in the Ann. ami Mag. Nat. Hist. [2] vol. xix. (ia37) p. 74, 
and in the Geological .Atagazine, vol.s. i. and ii. ^ 
(186'?*^"^" Holland’s ‘Essays on Scientific and other Subjects ’ 
vnr. III. 
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