Woods, Henry
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Epithet: book-keeper
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x0002f7
Epithet: RA; of Add MS 42577
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Epithet: of Warnford Park Hampshire
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Henry Woods (1868-1952), palaeontologist, was born at Cottenham, near Cambridge, on 18 December 1868. He attended the higher grade school in Cambridge before entering St John's College in 1887. Woods joined the Department of Geology in 1892 as demonstrator in palaeobotany. He became demonstrator in palaeozoology in 1894, and was lecturer in palaeontology, 1899-1934. Following his retirement, he remained the departmental librarian until over eighty. He died at Meldreth, Hertfordshire, on 4 April 1952.
From the guide to the Henry Woods: Letters to him, 1900-1929, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
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- Palaeontology
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- Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire (as recorded)
- Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire (as recorded)
- Norwich, Norfolk (as recorded)
- Yeovil, Somerset (as recorded)
- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (as recorded)
- Ireland, Europe (as recorded)
- Northampton, Northamptonshire (as recorded)
- East Retford, Nottinghamshire (as recorded)
- London, England (as recorded)
- Manchester, Lancashire (as recorded)
- Olney, Buckinghamshire (as recorded)
