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WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOOD, See also:JOHN See also:GEORGE (1827—1889) , See also:English writer and lecturer on natural See also:history, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:July 1827. He was educated at See also:Ashbourne See also:grammar school and at Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford; and after he had taken his degree in 1848 he worked for two years in the anatomical museum at See also:Christ See also:Church under See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Acland. In 1852 he was ordained a See also:deacon of the Church of See also:England, became See also:curate of the See also:parish of St See also:Thomas the See also:Martyr, Oxford, and also took up the See also:post of See also:chaplain to the Boatmen's Floating See also:Chapel at Oxford. He was ordained See also:priest in 1854, and in that See also:year gave up his curacy to devote himself for a See also:time to See also:literary See also:work. In 1858 he accepted a readership at Christ Church, Newgate See also:Street, and he was assistant-chaplain to St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital, London, from 1856 until 1862. Between 1868 and 1876 he held the See also:office of See also:precentor to the See also:Canterbury Diocesan Choral See also:Union. After 1876 he devoted himself to the See also:production of books and to delivering in all parts of the See also:country lectures on See also:zoology, which he illustrated by See also:drawing on a See also:black-See also:board or on large sheets of See also:white-See also:paper with coloured crayons. These " See also:sketch lectures," as he called them, were very popular, and made his name widely known both in See also:Great See also:Britain and in the See also:United States. In 1883—1884 he delivered the See also:Lowell lectures at See also:Boston. Wood wasfor a time editor of the Boy's Own See also:Magazine. His most important work was a Natural History in three volumes, but he was better known by the See also:series of books which began with See also:Common See also:Objects of the See also:Sea-See also:Shore, and which included popular monographs on shells, moths, beetles, the See also:microscope and Common Objects of the Country. Our See also:Garden See also:Friends and Foes was another See also:book which found hosts of appreciative readers.

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Coventry on the 3rd of See also:March 1889.

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