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WE regret to record the death at Steyning, Sussex, on Oct. 4 of Mr. Charles Morris Woodford, for eighteen administrator of the Solomon Islands. Mr. Woodford was born at Gravesend in 1852, and educated at Tonbridge School. On 1ea(ring in 1871, he went to the western Pacific as a naturalist and collector for the Rothschild Museum at Tring. For ten years he explored Melanesia, visiting the Solomons three times between 1886 and 1888. These islands then had few European inhabitants. Most of them were British, and they lived in constant danger from the native inhabitants, whose habits then fully accorded with the popular idea of a savage, as they were bloodthirsty cannibals, and assiduous in headhunting. Woodford, however, succeeded in acquiring a considerable knowledge of their habits and characteristics, which he was afterwards to turn to good use.
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Mr. C. M. Woodford, C.M.G. Nature 120, 557–558 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120557a0
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