Bernard Barham Woodward (3 August 1853 – 27 October 1930) was a British

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

and author of a catalogue of the works of

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

. He was a member of staff at the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

and then the

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history scientific collection, collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, Fungus, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleo ...

Biography

He was the son of the geologist

Samuel Pickworth Woodward Samuel Pickworth Woodward (17 September 1821 – 11 July 1865) was an English geologist and malacologist. Biography He was the son of the geologist Samuel Woodward. In 1845, S. P. Woodward became the professor of geology and natural history ...

, a nephew of the antiquarian

Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (2 May 1816 – 12 October 1869) was an English nonconformist minister, antiquarian, and Royal Librarian at Windsor Castle. Life The eldest son of Samuel Woodward the geologist, he was born at Norwich on 2 May 181 ...

and the geologist Henry Woodward and brother of the geologist

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward Horace Bolingbroke Woodward , (20 August 1848 – 6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, whe ...

. He was one of the last surviving members of the British Museum Natural History staff which transferred in 1881 from the

to the

. Woodward was an Assistant in the British Museum and on becoming Librarian at the Natural History Museum became responsible for the general catalogue of the books. He worked in this position from 1903 to his retirement in 1920, by which time the Library had gained an international reputation.History of the Library of the Natural History Museum
- the

website During that period Woodward produced the five main volumes of the catalogue and a supplementary volume.Bernard Barham Woodward (1853-1930) Obituary
- ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...

'' 30 October 1930; Issue 45657; pg. 19 In common with his uncle Henry Woodward, formerly Keeper of Geology in the British Museum, and his brother

of the Geological Survey, Woodward had an interest in natural history that extended beyond his work at the Natural History Museum, conducting his own researches into

mollusca Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

, and especially British mollusca. Based on this work the Trustees of the

published his books on the British species of

Pisidium ''Pisidium'' is a genus of very small or minute freshwater clams known as pill clams or pea clams, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Sphaeriidae, the pea clams and fingernail clams. In some bivalve classification systems, the family Spha ...

and the British freshwater mollusca, while his book on the life of mollusca was published just before

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. For his work in this field Woodward was elected a Fellow of the

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript a ...

and the

Royal Microscopical Society The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. It was founded in 1839 as the Microscopical Society of London making it the oldest organisation of its kind in the world. In 1866, the Society gained it ...

, and he was for some years President of the

Malacological Society of London The Malacological Society of London is a British learned society and charitable organisation concerned with malacology, the study of molluscs, a large phylum of invertebrate animals divided into nine or ten taxonomic classes, of which two are e ...

. He frequently contributed to the ''

Dictionary of National Biography The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September ...

'' (DNB).

Personal life

He was twice married and twice widowed, firstly to the novelist Emma Hosken (1845–1884) whom he married in 1882, and then to Jane E. Mayne Randles (1854–1904) whom he married in 1891. He left no family. He is buried in

Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. The cemetery is listed a Grade I site in the Regist ...

near

Woking Woking ( ) is a town and borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in north-west Surrey, England, around from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as ''Wochinges'', and its name probably derives from that of a Anglo-Saxon settleme ...

in Surrey.

Publications

* B. B. Woodward
''Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural history)''
London, 1903–1940. * Bernard Barham Woodward & W.R. Wilson

London, 1907, 27 p. * B. B. Woodward, ttp://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007158678 ''The life of the mollusca'' London, 1913, 158 p. * B. B. Woodward, ttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001499738 ''Catalogue of the British species of Pisidium (recent and fossil)'' London, 1913, 144 p.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodward, Bernard Barham British malacologists English zoologists 1853 births 1930 deaths Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Burials at Brookwood Cemetery 19th-century British zoologists 20th-century British zoologists