Woodcuts and Wood-Engravings

Samuel Peckworth* Woodward (1821-1865)
A Manual of the Mollusca, or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells
London: J. Weale, 1851-56

S. P. Woodward was both the son and father of geologists. He became a professor of geology and natural history and eventually went to work for the British Museum as an assistant in the geology and mineralogy section. Featured here is his one known publication, A Manual of Mollusca, which was originally published in three parts.

Figure 84, a gastropod

Figure 228, featuring a marine aquarium

*S. P. Woodward is identified variously as Samuel Peckworth Woodward and Samuel Pickworth Woodward.

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