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THE death is announced on Christmas Day of the REV. HENRY HOYTE WINWOOD, of Bath, at the age of ninety years. Mr. Win wood was for half a century one of the most active amateur geologists in the West of England, and the stimulating friend of many who have made important advances in geological science. In early life he was associated with Prof, (now Sir) W. Boyd Dawkins and the late Mr. W. A. Sanford in several explorations of bone-caves and prehistoric burial places. In 1865 he announced the discovery of flint implements in definite association with the remains of extinct animals in the cave named Hoyle's Mouth, near Tenby. In his own district he diligently observed all temporary excavations, and made notes which1 were published in the Proceedings of the Bath Natural History Club. When the British Association visited Bath in 1888 he wrote the section on geology for the local handbook. He also took much interest in the Bath Royal Institution, and collected the fund by which it secured the unique museum of local fossils of the late Charles Moore. He delighted in making this museum accessible for the promotion of research. Mr. Winwood was elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1864, served for many years on the council, and was a vice-president in 1898–1900 and 1915–17.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 605 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106605b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106605b0