Henry Woods (geologist)

Henry Woods ( born December 18, 1868 in Cottenham near Cambridge, † April 4, 1952 in Meldreth, Hertfordshire ) was a British paleontologist.

Woods studied at Cambridge University with the degree in 1890 and was there then curator of the museum and Woodwardian from 1892 Demonstrator in Palaeobotany and from 1894 in Palaeozoology. From 1899 until his retirement in 1934 he was a lecturer in palaeontology in Cambridge. Even then, he remained at the university as a librarian for the Department of Palaeontology.

In 1940 he received the Wollaston Medal and 1918, the Lyell Medal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Writings

  • Palaeontology, invertebrate, Cambridge University Press, 7th Edition 1937, online ( first 1893)
  • Elementary Palaeontology for geology students, Cambridge University Press 1893
  • Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge 2010 ( first published 1891 )
  • Inter alia, Trilobita and Eurypterida in Sidney Harmer Cambridge Natural History, Volume 4, 1909
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