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Woodward, Sir Arthur Smith, (1864-1944), Knight, Knight, palaeontologist

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Surname: Woodward
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Arthur Smith
Gender: Male
Date: 1864-1944
Title: Knight
History: Keeper of Geology at the British Museum (Natural History) 1901-1924. Established himself as the authority on paleo-ichthyology. Involved in dating the Piltdown skull; discovered to have been a fraud in 1953. FRS 1901; knighted 1924.
Biography: ODNB link for Woodward, Sir Arthur Smith (1864-1944) Knight Palaeontologist
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275118 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P146395 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1912-1983: British Museum (Natural History): Department of Palaeontology: Piltdown Man: Records
The Natural History Museum Archives, London
DF 116
2
1870-1898: British Museum (Natural History): Department of Palaeontology: Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers
The Natural History Museum Archives, London
DF 120
3
corresp and papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
4
corresp of Woodward amongst a collection of (c350) letters of naturalists, belonging to Charles Davies Sherborn
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L MSS SHE B
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
5
1880-1939: corresp
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
MS ADD 242
See Manuscript collections 1978
6
1881-90: letters to George Gordon
Elgin Museum
NRA(S)1989
NRA 22745 Gordon
7
1924-32: corresp with Macmillans
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 55224