The John Bargrave Collection
John Woodward (1 May 1665 or 1668 - 25 Apr 1728)
Physician, natural historian, antiquary, and professor of physic at Gresham College. He was made fellow of the Royal Society in 1693. As a young man, he was counted a friend by Lhwyd as early as 1690, and he gave some specimens of coal slate to Plot (Levine, 22-23, 27ff). Woodward began collecting specimens, including his first fossil, in 1688 or 1689 while staying with Dr. Ralph Dutton in Gloucestershire (Levine, 23).Weld quotes Woodward's preface to his Catalogue of English Fossils for an account the impetus of Woodward's collection:
"The country about Sherborne, and the neighbouring parts of Gloucestershire, to which I made frequent excursions, abounding with stone, and there being quarries of this kind open almost everywhere, I began to visit these in order to inform myself of the nature, the situation, and the condition of the stone. In making these observations, I soon found there was incorporated with the sand of most of the stone thereabouts, great plenty and variety of sea·shells, with other marine productions. I took notice of the like lying loose on the fields in the ploughed lands so thick, that I have scarcely observed pebbles or flints more frequent and numerous on the ploughed lands of those countries that most abound in them. This was a speculation new to me, and what I judged of so great moment, that I resolved to pursue it through the other remoter parts of the kingdom; where I afterwards made observations upon all sorts of fossils, collected such as I thought remarkable, and sent them up to London" (I.336).
He is possibly the "Mr. Woodward" named by Courten as a source of his European mole cricket (gryllotalpa). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodward_%28naturalist%29 Other Links: galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/woodward.html - A biography on John Woodward in The Galileo Project. Roles: Correspondent
Relevant locations: Originating Location (object) Derbyshire
Originating Location (object) Sherborne
Residence at London
People linked to person: John Woodward was a friend of Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709)
John Woodward was a member of Royal Society (-)
John Woodward was a correspondent of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
John Woodward was a visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (22 Feb 1683-6 Jan 1734)
John Conyers (c.1633-1694) was a source of object(s) for John Woodward
Ralph Dutton (c. 1645-1720/21) was a friend of John Woodward
Christian Heinrich Erndtel (1676 -1734) was a visitor to (a person) John Woodward
Henry Hare (1636-1708) was a correspondent of John Woodward
John Hutchinson (1674-1737) was a source of object(s) for John Woodward
John Kemp (1665-1717) was a donor to John Woodward
Johann Friedrich Leopold (02 Feb 1676 -04 May 1711) was a source of object(s) for John Woodward
Johann Friedrich Leopold (02 Feb 1676 -04 May 1711) was a friend of John Woodward
Smart Lethieullier (1701-1760) was a recipient of object(s) from John Woodward
William Nicolson (3 Jun 1655-14 Feb 1727) was a unspecified to John Woodward
John Strype (1643-1737) was a unspecified to John Woodward
Thomas Wilson (20 Dec 1663-7 Mar 1755) was a donor to John Woodward