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Searles Valentine Wood

1830–84

Geologist and lawyer. Son of Searles Valentine Wood (1798–1880). Practised as a solicitor from 1851; after his retirement in 1865, worked full-time on geology. Pioneer in the study of glacial deposits, especially in East Anglia. Fellow, Geological Society of London, 1864.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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