Horace Bolingbroke Woodward FGS FRS, (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896,[1] awarded the Murchison Medal in 1897, and the Wollaston Medal in 1909.
He was second son[2] of geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, himself second son of geologist and antiquary Samuel Woodward. His brother was malacologist Bernard Barham Woodward.
Selected works
edit- Woodward, Horace B (1876). The Geology of England and Wales. London: Longman Green & Co – via Hathi Trust.
- Woodward, Horace B (1893). The Lias of England and Wales (Yorkshire excepted). Memoirs of the Geological survey of the United Kingdom. Vol. 3. London: HMSO – via Hathi Trust.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - Woodward, Horace B (1907). The History of the Geological Society of London. London: Geological Society of London.
- Woodward, Horace B (1910). The Geology of Water-Supply. Arnold's geological series. London: Edward Arnold – via Hathi Trust.
- Woodward, Horace B (1911). History of Geology. New York: G P Putnam's sons.
References
edit- ^ "Obituary. Horace B. Woodward". Geological Magazine. 51: 142–144. 1914. doi:10.1017/s0016756800138282. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2016 – via Hathi Trust.
- ^ Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1905). Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke. Vol. 57. Who's Who. pp. 1771–1772 – via Google Books.
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