Joseph Woods

See also: Woods

Joseph Woods is a geologist, a Botaniste and a British Architecte Quaker , born the August 24th 1776 with Stoke Newington, village with a few kilometers of the City of London and died in 1864.

Biography

It begins its studies in its residence where his/her parents, Joseph and Margaret Woods, teach Latin, the old and modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian and French to him. Around sixteen years, it starts to study architecture near Daniel Asher Alexander (1768-1846). His/her father, Joseph Woods the old one, is one of the founders of the movement in favor of the Abolition of slavery, just as one of his maternal uncles, Samuel Hoare the Young person. These two men belong to the four Quakers who found London Abolition Committee, which is at the origin of the Committee for the Abolition off the Slave Trade.

In 1806, Joseph Woods founds London Architectural Society and becomes its first president about it. Before this date, one often credits it with the design and the construction of Clissold House to Stoke Newington, but this seems improbable. In 1816, at once the end of the Napoleonean wars, it goes on the continent and visits the France, the Suisse and the Italy to study architecture and botany there. He reports his experiment in Letters off year Architect , a book which appears in 1828.

In the field of botany, it had already made appear a study of the Rosa in the Transactions off the Linnean Society in 1818 under the title of “Synopsis off the British Species off Rosa”. Starting from 1835, Woods is devoted mainly to its other passion, botany. It makes appear, in 1835, the Companion to the Botanical Magazine then, of 1836 with 1843, The Physiologist . In 1850, The Tourist' S Flora: has descriptive catalogs off the flowering seedlings and ferns off the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian Islands , work based on its observations at the time of its voyages. He is member of the Société linnéenne of London, of the Royal Geographical Society and the Society off British Architects. Robert Brown (1773-1858) dedicates the kind to him Woodsia of the Woodsiaceae in 1810.

Source

  • Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of January 20th, 2007).

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