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Excerpt from The Rev. J. G. Wood: His Life and Work As it may fairly be claimed for my father that he was the first to popularise natural history, and to render it interesting, and even intelligible, to non-scientific minds, it has been thought advisable that some account of his life and labours should be prepared and published while his memory is yet fresh in the minds of those who have read his books or listened to his lectures. In the following pages, therefore, I have endeavoured to describe his three-fold work as clergyman, author, and lecturer, and at the same time to give a short account of his public and private life from his early boyhood to the closing days of his life. Unfortunate...
John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood, (1827-1889), was a popular English writer on natural history, and not very modest about it.
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