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DR. WALTER G. RIDEWOOD, whose sudden death occurred on September 19, was born in London on February 1, 1867. He was educated at Enfteld Grammar School, of which his father, Mr. W. S. Ridewood, was headmaster for many years. He was at the Royal College of Science from 1883 to 1887, becoming an associate and taking first classes in both biology and geology. In 1888 he took his B.Sc. degree in the University of London, with first-class honours in zoology, and in 1897 he became D.Sc. In the meantime, in May, 1888, he had been appointed assistant to the director at the British Museum (Natural History), where he was employed in making the wonderful series of anatomical preparations exhibited in the Central Hall of that institution. In this kind of work Dr. Ridewood was without rival, his extraordinary manual skill and technical knowledge being supplemented by a thorough grasp of the principles of morphology and a close acquaintance with its literature. He also organised and prepared several special exhibitions, among the most important being the Darwin Centenary Exhibition and the series of preparations illustrating the different modes of flight in the animal kingdom. This series is still on exhibition, and is an excellent example of his work. For these and other exhibitions he prepared valuable illustrated guide-books. He severed his connection with the British Museum in 1917, after twenty-nine years' service, his resignation being greatly regretted by his colleagues.
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A., C. Dr. Walter George Ridewood. Nature 108, 160 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108160a0
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