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A. Smith Woodward 
1864-1944 

Arthur Smith Woodward was born in Macclesfield on 23 May 1864.  He was educated at Macclesfield and at Owens College, Manchester.  He worked at the British Museum from 1882, becoming Assistant Keeper of Geology in 1892 and Keeper of the Geological Department in 1901, until 1824.  Having many honours and posts throughout his career, he was known for his work and interpretation of the skull of Piltdown Man in 1912.  He was knighted in 1924. 

Smith Woodard A., and Sherborn C. D., 1890, A catalogue of British fossil vertebrata. London.

Smith Woodard A., 1886, Flying reptiles. Ill. Sci. Monthly 4, 1–5.

Smith Woodard A., 1888, A synopsis of the vertebrate fossils of the English Chalk. Proc. geol. Ass. 10, 273–338 & pl 1.

Smith Woodard A., 1891, Evidence of the occurence of Pterosaurians and Plesiosaurians in the Cretaceous of Brazil. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (68) 8, 314–317 & pl 1.

Smith Woodard A., 1896, On the quadrate bone of a gigantic Pterodactyl discovered by Joseph Mawson Esq., F. G. S., in the Cretaceous of Bahia, Brazil. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 17, 255–257 & pl 1.

Smith Woodard A., 1898, Outlines of vertebrate palaeontology. Cambridge. p. 224.

Smith Woodard A., 1902, On two skulls of the Ornithosaurian Rhamphorhynchus. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.(7) 9, 1–5 & pl 1.

Smith Woodard A., 1911, Pterodactyles. In Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edn,22, 616.

Smith Woodard A., 1922, A guide to fossil reptiles, amphibians and fishes in the department of geology and palaeontology in the British Museum of Natural History.