Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward ( born August 20, 1848 in London, † February 6, 1914 in London, Croydon ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

Woodward was the son of Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821-1865) and nephew of Henry Woodward. In 1863 he became assistant to the secretary HJ Jenkins of the Geological Society of London and was from 1867 the Geological Survey of Great Britain ( at the invitation of Roderick Murchison ). Later he headed from 1893 the place of the Geological Survey in London Archibald Geikie and was deputy director of the Survey for England and Wales. During this time he was mainly occupied with administrative tasks. In 1908 he went into retirement.

When he Geological Survey mapped in different areas of England, for example in Devon, Somerset and Dorset, in the London area as well as in the area of Norfolk, which has been the subject of geological investigations of his grandfather Samuel Woodward. He was in Norwich also president of the local geological society and the Naturalist's Society. Another focus was the participation in the mapping and processing of the Jura in the UK, where he, among others, mapped in Scotland ( Skye, Raasay, where he discovered iron ore deposits ).

He wrote several books, for example, about the geology of Great Britain ( including Atlas ), hydro- geology and the history of geology.

In 1896 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. 1893/94 he was president of the Geologist 's Association and from 1904 to 1906 Vice- President of the Geological Society of London. In 1909 he received the Wollaston medal.

Writings

  • Geology of Norwich, Fakenham, Wells and Holt
  • The geology of water supply, London 1910, Online
  • The geology of England and Wales: a concise account of the lithological characters, leading fossils, and economic products of the rocks; with notes on the physical features of the country, Longmans, Green and Co., online
  • Publisher of Andrew C. Ramsay: The physical geology and geography of Great Britain: a manual of British geology, 6th edition, London 1894
  • Employees of The Jurassic rocks of Britain, Geological Survey, HM Stationery Office, 5 volumes from 1892 to 1895 ( he was involved in three volumes )
  • History of Geology, London, New York ( Putnam's ) 1911, reprint New York 1978Online
  • The geology of soils and substrata: with special reference to agriculture, estates, and sanitation, London 1912, Online
  • Soils and subsoils from a sanitary point of view; with especial reference to London and its neighborhood, London, HM Stationery Office, 2nd edition 1906
  • Geology of East Somerset and the Bristol coal -fields, London, HM Stationery Office, 1876
  • Stanford's geological atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd edition, London, E. Stanford, 1907, 4th edition 1925
  • The history of the geological Society of London, London, Geological Society, 1907, reprint, New York 1978 Online
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