Searles Valentine Wood (February 14, 1798 – October 26, 1880) was an English palaeontologist.
Wood went to sea in 1811 as a midshipman in the British East India Company's service, which he left in 1826.
[3] These studies led to his chief work, A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca (1848–1856), published by the Palaeontographical Society.
[3] This resulted in the publication of A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England (1861–1871), also issued by the Palaeontographical Society.
[1] His son, Searles Valentine Wood (1830-1884), was for some years a solicitor at Woodbridge, but gave up the profession and devoted his energies to geology, studying especially the structure of the deposits of the crag and glacial drifts.