824 HORACE BOLINGBROKE WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
XVIII. 
HORACE BOLINGBROKE WOODWARD, 
F.R.S., F.G.S. 
Born August 20th, 1848. Died February 6th, 1914. 
Wfien death severs a friendship of forty years it is difficult to 
form a true estimate of the friend’s lifework, and this is 
specially difficult in the case of H. B. Woodward, whose life 
was more generously spent in aiding others than in those 
original researches which might permanently establish his 
reputation. 
Born in London in 1848, the son of Dr. S. P. Woodward, 
F.G.S., 1 of the Department of Geology in the Bristish Museum 
(1848-65), Horace was educated in a private school, and in 
1863 was appointed assistant to the Secretary, Mr. H. M. 
Jenkins, at the Geological Society, Somerset House- This 
position he did not hold for long, being appointed in 1867, at 
the age of 19, an Assistant Geologist on the Geological Survey, 
under Sir Roderick Murchison. The greater part of his life 
was thus spent in official harness, for he did not retire until the 
end of 1908. 
His Survey work was so varied that it is difficult to give a 
connected account of it. In his early life he worked much 
under Mr. H. W. Bristow, F.R.S., in Somerset and various 
other districts. He took part in the first Drift Survey of the 
London Area ; but he was before long transferred to the 
disturbed rocks of the Somersetshire Coalfield. Then he was 
engaged on the Palaeozoic and Secondary rocks of Devon and 
Somerset ; this varied experience assisting him greatly in the 
1 See Obituary, Geol. May., August, 1865, pp. 383-4. 
