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SIR ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD, to whom the Linnean Medal for 1940 of the Linnean Society was presented at the anniversary meeting on May 24, was a student of Prof. Boyd Dawkins in Owens College. He entered the Geological Department of the British Museum in 1882, and spent more than forty years in that institution, retiring as keeper of the Department. Between 1889 and 1901 he published four volumes of a “Catalogue of Fossil Fishes”, based on a personal knowledge not only of the splendid collection in the Museum, but also of all other important series preserved in all parts of the world. It is a unique publication, a survey by one man of the whole material of a group which has provided that solid basis on which all our recent advances of knowledge of this subject have been built.
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The Linnean Medallist for 1940. Nature 145, 806 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145806a0
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