Person
Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846 - 1916)
- Born
- 31 January 1846
Islington, England - Died
- 14 October 1916
Harvey, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Analyst, Geologist and Museum director
Summary
Bernard Woodward was a geologist and museum director who, after his arrival in Western Australia in 1889, was appointed to several government positions. These included Government Analyst, Inspector of Mineral Oils, and Assistant Examiner in Patents. He also became Curator of the Geological Museum in 1889 and, after the Museum became the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery in 1897, continued as Director of that Museum. He added significantly to the Museum's collections, published guides to the Museums holdings, and was the inaugural Editor of the Museum's Records. Woodward was a founding member of the Western Australian Natural History Society, and President of the Society after it's revival. The botanist Joseph Maiden named Eucalyptus woodwardii Maiden (1910) in his honour. He is commemorated with Woodward Park reserve.
Details
Born 31 January 1846. Died 14 October 1916. Assistant, department of geology and mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) 1848-?, arrived Western Australia 1889, government analyst 1889-1895, inspector of mineral oils 1893, examined problems in flour 1894, assistant examiner in patents 1896, curator, Geological Museum, Perth from 1889, director, Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 1897-1916. Foundation president 1896 and president 1914, Society of Arts, founder, Western Australian Natural History Society (the Royal society from 1912), president, Toodyay Vine and Fruit-growers' Association 1893-98. Commemorated by Woodward Park reserve,
Chronology
- 1889
- Life event - Migrated to Western Australia
- 1889 - 1895
- Career position - Government Analyst for Western Australia
- 1889 - 1897
- Career position - Curator, Geological Museum, Perth
- 1889 - 1916
- Career position - Director, Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery
- 1891
- Career position - Foundation Member, Western Australian Natural History Society
- 1893
- Career event - Appointed Inspector of Mineral Oils
- 1893 - 1898
- Career position - President, Toodyay Vine and Fruit-growers' Association
- 1894
- Career event - Examined problems in flour
- 1896
- Career position - Foundation President, Society of Arts
- 1905 - 1906
- Career position - President, Western Australian Natural History Society (1904 - 1909)
- 1910
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus woodwardii Maiden was named in his honour
- 1910 - 1914
- Career position - Editor, Records of the Western Australian Museum
- 1914
- Career position - President, Society of Arts
- 1986
- Career event - Appointed Assistant Examiner in Patents
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Woodward, B. H., Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery with a list of the Western Australian marsupials and birds in the collection (Perth: Committee of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, 1900), 100 pp. Details
- Woodward, Bernard, Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery (Perth: Ames and Heller, 1900), 100 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Crawford, Ian M., 'Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846-1916), museum director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 567-568. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120635b.htm. Details
- Johnstone, R. E., 'A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum' in Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A., eds (Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), pp. 165-98. Details
Journal Articles
- Mcnamara, Kenneth J.; and Radford, Susan P., 'Professor Tennant's fossils: a founding collection of the Western Australian Museum', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 111-27. Details
- Paterson, Alistair; and Witcomb, Andrea, '"Nature's marvels": the value of collections extracted from colonial Western Australia', Journal of Australian studies, 45 (2) (2021), 197-220. Details
- Woodward, B. H., 'Recent discoveries regarding the fauna of Western Australia', Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society, 2 (6) (1905), 7-20. Details
- Woodward, B. H., 'National parks and the fauna and flora reserves of Australasia', Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society, 4 (13-20) (1907). Details
- Zylstra, Baige, '"Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 59-74. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21388430. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/282148389463710712615. Details
- 'Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846-1916)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469032. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 25 February 2025