Education
University of Cambridge.
paleontologist university professor
University of Cambridge.
In 1890 Woods earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge, then became there curator of the Woodwardian Museum, earning an Master of Arts in 1894. At Cambridge University, Woods was from 1892 to 1899 a demonstrator in paleobotany, and from 1894 to 1899 a demonstrator in paleozoology until his promotion to lecturer. From 1899 until his retirement in 1934 he was a lecturer in paleontology at Cambridge.
Even after his retirement, Woods remained at the university as a librarian for the paleontology department until he was over eighty.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916.
Royal Society.