Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement
Author: Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement”, published in 1912, is a work by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward. It explores elements such as Etheridge, geological survey and geology.

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ SEELEY, HARRY GOVIER (1839–1909) , geologist and palaeontologist, born in London on 18 Feb. 1839, was second son of Richard Hovill Seeley, goldsmith, by his second wife, Mary Govier, who was of Huguenot descent. Sir John Richard Seeley [q. v.] , the historian, was his cousin. Privately educated, he as a youth became interested in natural history, attended lectures by Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay [q. v.] and Edward Forbes [q. v.] at the Royal School of Mines, read Lyell's 'Principles of Geology,' began to collect fossils, and received help and encouragement from Samuel Pickworth Woodward [q. v.] ”

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“ Thereupon from Dec. 1869 until 1894 he was, in succession to Sir William Edmond Logan [q. v.] , director of the geological survey of Canada, where his work increased as various provinces and territories in British North America were added to the Dominion. His aim was to make the department of growing practical use to parliament and the public. Special attention was given to the goldfields and other mineral areas, to the building materials, soils, agriculture and sylviculture, and to water-supply. As in Australia so in Canada Selwyn personally engaged in field-work. ”

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“ In 1872 Seeley settled in London, devoting himself to literary work and lecturing. In 1876 he was appointed professor of geography and lecturer on geology in King's College, London, and also professor of geography and geology in Queen's College, London, where he became dean in 1881. In 1896 he succeeded to the chair of geology and mineralogy at King's College. In 1885 he formed the London Geological Field Class, conducting summer excursions in and around the metropolis. During 1880-90 he lectured for the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching ”

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“ In 1876 Medlicott succeeded Oldham as superintendent of the geological survey of India, the title being altered to director in 1885. His duties kept him mainly in Calcutta, where he gave the most painstaking attention to editing the survey publications. ”

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“ During his residence in Hampshire, and, after his retirement, in London he continued his researches on microzoa, contributing many papers, some in conjunction with H. B. Brady, H. B. Holl, J. W. Kirkby, and W. K. Parker, to the 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,' the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' the 'Reports of the British Association,' and the 'Geological Magazine.' He edited the 'Reliquise Aquitanicae' of E. Lartet and H. Christy (1875) , and, with much addition and revision, the 2nd edition of F. Dixon's 'Geology of Sussex' (1878) . ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ In 1858 he became lecturer on geology, and in 1862 professor, at the Royal Military College, and afterwards at the Staff College, Sandhurst, resigning his post at the Geological Society in 1862, when he took up residence at Farnborough. He retired in 1880 on the abandonment by the military authorities of the teaching of geology. ”

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“ CHAPMAN, EDWARD JOHN (1821–1904) , mineralogist, was born in London on 22 Feb. 1821, and educated in France and Germany, where he gave special attention to chemistry and mineralogy. He was professor of mineralogy in University College, London, from 1849 to 1853, and professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Toronto from 1853 to 1895. ”

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“ Selwyn died at Vancouver, B.C., on 19 Oct. 1902. He married in 1852 Matilda Charlotte, daughter of Edward Selwyn, rector of Hemingford Abbots in Huntingdonshire ; three sons and a daughter survived him, one son, Percy H. Selwyn, being secretary of the Geological Survey of Canada. ”

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“ In 1851 he joined the geological survey of Ireland, and worked for two years under Joseph Beete Jukes [q. v.] , when he was transferred to the English staff and was engaged during 1853 in field-work in Wiltshire. On 24 March 1854 he joined the geological survey of India, and from August till 1862 was professor of geology at the Thomason College of Civil Engineering at Rurki. ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Medlicott received his early education partly in France, partly in Guernsey, and then entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1850, with diploma and honours in the school of civil engineering, proceeding M.A. in 1870. ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ David's, and grand-daughter of John Murray, third duke of Atholl [q. v.] . First educated at home by private tutors, and afterwards in Switzerland, where he developed great interest in geology, he was in 1845 appointed an assistant geologist on the geological survey of Great Britain, and for seven years was actively engaged in the difficult mountainous districts of North Wales. ”

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“ During vacations he visited all the principal public museums in Europe for the special study of fossil reptilia, and he contributed descriptions of new points of structure and of new species of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and other vertebrate, to scientific societies and magazines. ”

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“ Hector drew attention to the erratic blocks and the evidence of extensive glaciation; he noted the general structure of the Rocky Mountains, and described beds of tertiary and cretaceous lignite and coal in the country east of the mountains and at Nanaimo in Vancouver Island. In 1861, on Murchison's recommendation. Hector was appointed geologist to the provincial government of Otago, New Zealand. ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ He was elected F.R.S. Edinburgh in 1861, and F.R.S. London in 1866, and also a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London. The Lyell medal was awarded to him in 1876 by the Geological Society, and the founder's gold medal in 1891 by the Royal Geographical Society. ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ G. J. Hinde, 1890) ; 'Tertiary Entomostraca' (1856; supp. with C. D. Sherborn, 1889) ; 'Fossil Estheriæ' (1862) ; 'Foraminifera of the Crag' (1866 and 1895-7) ; 'Carboniferous Bivalved Entomostraca,' with Dr. G. S. Brady (1874) ; and 'Palaeozoic Phyllopoda,' with Dr. Henry Woodward (1888) .
[Biography (with portrait) in Geol. Mag., Jan. 1893; Supp. notice, with portrait, on 90th birthday, ibid. Nov. 1909; Men and Women of the Time, 1899; obit. by H. B. W. Nature, 27 April 1911. The best published portrait is in Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Prestmch, 1899, p. 376.] ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Henry Woodward, Geol. Mag., Jan. 1904, p. 42 (with portrait and bibliography) ; memoirs by H. B. Woodward in Proc. Roy. Soc. lxxv. 1905, and in Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc. ser. 2, vol. x. 1904, p. 175 (with portrait) . ”

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Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Mag. 1907, p. 241 (with portrait and bibliographv) ; Men and Women of the Time, 1899; Quart. Journ. Geol. Sec. lxv. 1909, p. lxx; Proc. Roy. Soc. lxxxiii. B. p. xv. 1911 (memoir by Dr. A. S. Woodward) . ”

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