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	UCL: 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