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WOODWARD, JOHN f 1665-1728), English naturalist and geologist, was born in Derbyshire on the 1st of May 1665. At the age of sixteen he went to London, where he studied with Dr Peter Barwick, physician to Charles II. In 1692 he was appointed professor of physic in Gresham
Cambridge , and in 1702 became F.R.C.P.While still a student he became interested in botany and natural history, and during visits to Gloucestershire his attention was attracted by the fossils that are abundant in many parts of that county; and he began to form the great
By his will he directed that his personal estate and effects were to be sold, and that land of the yearly value of one hundred and fifty pounds was to be puchased and conveyed to the University of Cambridge . A lecturer was to be chosen, and paid ioo a year to read at least four lectures every year, on some one or other of the subjects treated of in his Natural History of the Earth. Hence arose the Woodwardian professorship of geology. To the same university he bequeathed his collection of English fossils, to be under the care of the lecturer, and these formed the nucleus of the Woodwardian museum at Cambridge. The specimens have since been removed to the new Sedgwick museum.A full account of Woodward's life and views and a portrait of him are given in the Life and Letters of the Rev. Adam
Clark
paper , read before the Royal Society in 1699, entitled Some Thoughts and Experiments concerning Vegetation, ' shows that the author should be ranked as a founder of experimental plant-physiology , for he was one of the first to employ the method of water-culture, and to make refined experiments for the investigation of plant-life."See also The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, by Jo.'-n Ward (1740).End of Article: WOODWARD, JOHN If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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