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of Sedgwick, and was for some time volunteer assistant in the Wood- 

 wardian Museum. His first paper, on land and fresh water shells in 

 association with mammalian bones in the gravels around Cambridge, 

 was read before the Cambridge Philosophical Society so long ago as 

 1838, but he became best known by his numerous discoveries of fossil 

 insects in the secondary rocks, and in 1845 he summarised all that 

 was then known in reference to this subject in his small illustrated 

 volume, "A History of the .Fossil Insects in the Secondary Kocks of 

 England," dedicated to his revered teacher Sedgwick. In the deter- 

 mination of the insects the author was assisted by the late Prof. J. 0. 

 Westwood. In 1838 Brodie entered the Church and became curate at 

 Wylye, Wiltshire ; in 1840 he removed to Steeple Claydon, Bucking- 

 hamshire ; next year he was elected vicar of Down Hatherley, 

 Gloucestershire ; and in 1855 he became vicar of Bowington, near 

 Warwick, where he died. In all these districts he accomplished 

 much original work, and he contributed several papers to the 

 Geological Society of London, besides others to the British Associa- 

 tion and various Field Clubs. In recognition of the value of his 

 labours the Geological Society awarded to him the Murchison Medal 

 in 1887. He amassed a large collection of fossils, of which the more 

 important specimens have been acquired by the British Museum, and 

 he was indefatigable in his exertions to spread an interest in science 

 among those by whom he was surrounded. In 1854 he was instru- 

 mental in founding the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeologists' 

 Field Club, and at the time of his death he was President both of this 

 Club and of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological 

 Society. An excellent portrait of Mr Brodie appeared in the Proc. 

 Warivick Field Club early this year, and it is reproduced, with an 

 extended biographical notice, in the November number of the Geological 

 Magazine. 



ANDEEW MATTHEWS 

 Born June 18, 1815. Died September 14, 1897 



At the ripe age of eighty-two one of the most accomplished of our 

 clerical naturalists has passed away. The Ptev. Andrew Matthews, 

 who had held the living of Gumley, Leicestershire, since 1853, was a 

 close observer of Nature, and interested in botany and ornithology. 

 His fame will rest, however, on his studies of the family of minute 

 beetles known as the Trichopterygidae. He published a beautifully 

 illustrated monograph of these insects in 1872, and we are glad to 

 know that the MSS. and drawings of a second volume had been com- 

 pleted by him in recent years, and will probably be issued shortly. 

 He also contributed the account of these beetles to the " Biologia 

 Centrali-Americana." All collectors of coleoptera are familiar with 

 the catalogue of the British species of the order which he compiled in 

 conjunction with Canon Fowler in 1883. That entomologist, in an 

 appreciative notice of Mr Matthews in the Entom. Monthly Mag. 

 for November, claims that the deceased naturalist was worthy to 

 rank with Gilbert White as an observer, while he far surpassed the 

 famous parson of Selborne as a close student of minute structure. 



