The foundation stone was laid on 30 June 1837 by Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.
Woodward's will left to the University a large collection of fossils and also dictated that the professor should be elected by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal College of Physicians, the Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge, and the University Senate.
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