Wood

Wood, JOHN GEORGE, popular writer on natural history, was born in London in 1827, and studied at Merton College, Oxford. Till 1862 he held some minor appointments (as chaplain, &c.), but is known as author of a long series of works on Zoology, comprising a smaller and a larger Natural History (1852; 18th ed. 1891), My Feathered Friends, the Common Objects group, Petland, Insects at Home, Insects Abroad, Man and Beast, and The Dominion of Man over Animals (posthumously published). He died 4th March 1889. See the Life by his son (1890).