| AdminHistory | Joseph Woods (1776 – 9 January 1864) was an English Quaker architect, botanist and geologist born in the village of Stoke Newington on 24 August 1776, a few miles north of the City of London. He formed and was the first President of the London Architectural Society, 1806. He was a member of the Society of Antiquaries, and an Honorary Member of the Society of British Architects. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 22 July 1801, and a Fellow of the Geological Society in recognition of his original research. He travelled on the continent and studied geology and botany, and later published 'Tourist's Flora' (London, 1850), a descriptive catalogue of plants and ferns of the British islands and various European countries. He died on 9 January 1864 in Lewes, Sussex. |
| Description | Four travel journals by Joseph Woods kept whilst he travelled in France, containing notes on his travels, plants observed and some illustrations. It is thought Woods used these notebooks to write his publication, 'The tourist's flora: a descriptive catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian Islands' (London, 1850).
Journal I: 15 November - 22 December 1830 (Nisones, Toulon, Fréjus, Cannes)
Journal II: 1 January - 20 February 1831 (Nice)
Journal III: 11 April - 16 May 1831 (Nice to Cannes)
Journal IV: 17 May-18 June 1831 (Toulon to [Riez])
Also contains a letter from Woods to J.E. Bicheno, Secretary of the Linnean Society, dated Nice February 1831, relating to his travels and the publication which Woods hopes to write: 'a tourism Flora'. |
| Publn_Note | 'The tourist's flora: a descriptive catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian Islands' by Joseph Woods (London, 1850). Class: 914:582.35/.4 WOO |