Bernard Henry Woodward FGS (31 January 1846 – 14 October 1916) was an English-born Australian museum director and naturalist, associated with the Western Australian Museum from its beginnings in 1889 until 1914.
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Born in Islington, London, to geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, Bernard came to Western Australia in 1889.[1] He is commemorated in the scientific names of several organisms, including the birds Amytornis woodwardi, Colluricincla woodwardi, and the tree Eucalyptus woodwardii.[2][3]
References edit
- ^ Crawford, Ian M. (1990). "Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846–1916)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ "Mr B. H. Woodward". The Emu. 16 (3): 197–198. 1916.
- ^ DJ Boland; MIH Brooker; GM Chippendale; N Hall; BPM Hyland; RD Johnston; DA Kleinig; MW McDonald; JD Turner (2006). Forest Trees of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 366–. ISBN 978-0-643-09894-7.
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