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Obituary — Edward Wood. 
It may be in your remembrance that I threw doubts upon the 
preglacial age of this deposit in tbe paper wbick I read at the meet- 
ing of the British Association at Norwick in 1868. 1 
Harlton, Cambridge. 0. FlSHEE. 
OBITUAKY. 
EDWARD WOOD, J.P., F.G.S. 
Born May 24, 1808. Died August 16, 1877. 
Wk regret to record the death of Mr. Edward Wood, of Richmond, 
Yorksliire, President of the Mechanics’ Institute, and of the Rich- 
mond Naturalists’ Field-club, of which he was also the founder. 
For more than thirty years Mr. Wood devoted his best efforts to the 
promotion of Natural Science, especially Geology, and he expended 
considerable sums of money and muck personal labour in forming 
what is allowed to be the finest private Collection of Mountain 
Limestone fossils in England. Many of the Brachiopoda have af- 
forded the types for Mr. Thomas Davidson’s splendid Monograph in 
the Palteontographical Society’s publications. Prof. L. de Köninck, 
of Liege, has also figured many of his fine Carboniferous Crinoids, 
the best of which, perliaps, has been named after its discoverer 
Woodocrinus. To Mr. Wood’s liberality is due the foundation of a 
Museum of Natural History in Richmond. For many years he 
undertook the pleasant and instructive task, at his own Charge, of 
taking large parties of his fellow-townsmen to all tbe prominent 
geological localities within fifty miles. In promoting education 
among the young, Mr. Wood was always very active. In 1862, he 
took 100 poor boys from Richmond to London, and at his own 
expense conducted them daily to the Exhibition and elsewhere. 
Mr. Wood was always most earnest and sincere in advocating the 
cause of Science ; for many years he endeavoured, by the intro- 
duction of Science-lectures in his native town, to raise up a taste 
for intellectual pursuits among his fellow-townsmen. His loss will 
be greatly feit by a large circle of friends to whom he was endeared, 
not so much perhaps on account of his scientific attainments, as for 
his social worth and the kindliness of his diepositiou to all, even the 
liumblest of bis fellows. 
Colouring of Oolitic Rocks. — Mr. Judd has pointed out that 
when dug at great depths or otherwise obtained at points wkere they 
have not been exposed to atmospkeric influences, all the Oolitic 
rocks exhibit an almost uniform deep-blue tint, which is apparently 
communicated to them by a diffusion through their substance of 
small quantities of sulpliide of iron. — H. B. Woodward, Geology of 
England and Wales, p. 188. 
Erratum. — In Mr. J. R. Dakyns’s article, August number, p. 349, 
line 4, insert “ seen ” before “ above.” 
1 See Geol. Mag. Yol. V. p. 544, and ßrit. Assoc. Eep. Norwich, 1868. 
