s, obituaries and notices of exhibitions of materials and photographs presented by Smith Woodward, principally at the Zoological Society. The fact there are 742 entries in this list is of little immediate value without an indication of the areas that he covered and the venues in which he published. Regarding the latter, the Geological Magazine comes top with 164 entries. This is not particularly surprising as the editor of this journal was Henry Woodward (1832–1921). Henry Woodward was Smith Woodward’s manager at the museum from the day he joined until Smith Woodward succeeded him as Keeper of Geology in 1901. All but the final two of Smith Woodward’s contributions to the Geological Magazine were made under Henry Woodward’s tenure as editor. Major contributions, such as the Palaeontographical Society Monographs, count as multiple entries in the list (Chalk fishes, published in seven parts; Wealden and Purbeck fishes, three parts), as does the Catalogue of Fossil Fishes (four parts). A significant number of articles were written for popular publications, such as Encyclopaedia Britannica (11), Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip (9) and the Illustrated London News (3). Smith Woodward’s first publication was a self-printed and published record of a holiday in Wales. In July 1880 and just 16 years old he had two articles published in Gardening Illustrated. The second article proposes a procedure for drying aquatic plants based on a method for drying seaweed. It is interesting to note that the NHM library has some examples of Smith Woodward’s dried seaweed in its collection. In all, Smith Woodward authored articles published in 95 different serials, periodicals and books. Table 1 splits his contributions into eight categories with the number in each category for the top five publications (in terms of number of contributions). These are the Geological Magazine, the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Nature and the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. The final column gives the total for all publications. Vertebrate palaeontology accounts for just over half of the total of 743 contributions (one paper dealt with a lungfish tooth and a dinosaurian claw and so appears twice). The significant number of obituaries that Smith Woodward wrote reflects both his longevity and the wide circle of eminent people that he knew. Reviews could range from a Table 1. Smith Woodward’s papers and articles by subject for the five most numerous venues for publication Geological Magazine Annals and Magazine of Natural History Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London Nature Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London All publications Fishes 44 69 16 4 19 263 Other vertebrates 18 8 5 6 16 114 Abstracts 37 23 0 2 0 99 Reviews 43 0 0 5 0 48 Palaeoanthropology 3 0 6 12 0 40 Obituaries 12 0 28 17 0 76 Exhibitions 0 0 0 0 10 14 Miscellaneous 7 1 4 5 1 89 Total 164 101 59 51 46 743 M. SMITH ET AL. 4