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meetings, made our ' Abstracts,' and was, in truth, the Naturalist 

 of the Society." 



To the ' Transactions of the G-eological Society ' (2nd series, 

 vol. V, p. 171), Mr. Broderip contributed a Paper " On some Fossil 

 Crustacea and Radiata found at Lyme Begis in Dorsetshire." 

 His description of " The Jaw of a Fossil Mammiferous Animal 

 found in the Stonesfield Slate," is published in the third volume 

 of the ' Zoological Journal.' To the same periodical Mr. Broderip 

 communicated " Observations upon the Volvooo glohator,'' " On the 

 Manners of a live Toucan exhibited in this country," " On the 

 Utility of preserving Facts relative to the Habits of Animals, 

 with additions to two Memoirs in ' White's Natural History of 

 Selborne,' " " On the mode in which the Boa Constrictor takes its 

 Prey," " On the Habits and Structure of Faguri and other Crus- 

 tacea," a " Notice on the Jfe messorius,^^ together with several 

 valuable conchological articles. The chief bulk of Mr. Broderip's 

 original writings on Malacology was consigned to the * Proceed- 

 ings ' and '■ Transactions ' of the Zoological Society. I may refer 

 to the Indexes of those collections and publications, and to the 

 *■ Bibliographia Zoologiae et Greologise,' published by the Eay Society, 

 for the titles of these numerous and valuable memoirs. 



Few naturalists have more closely observed — none perhaps have 

 more graphically and pleasingly described — the habits of animals. 

 Mr. Broderip's " Account of the Manners of a tame Beaver," one 

 of the pets that tenanted his chambers, published in the work 

 entitled ' The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society ' 

 (vol. i. p. 167), affords a favourable example of his tact as an 

 observer and power as a writer. Had circumstances permitted, 

 he would have been a Field Naturalist second only to Gilbert 

 White. When his friend Professor Owen became, through Royal 

 favour, the tenant of one of the lodges in Richmond Park, 

 Broderip would spend there much time in close observation of 

 zoological phenomena afforded by the garden and the wooded 

 vicinity of Sheen Gate. A note announcing the commencement 

 of nidification in the adjacent rookery, or the arrival of a migra- 

 tory song-bird, would immediately bring the retired Police Magi- 

 strate to Richmond Park. Many references to facts so observed 

 are made in those delightful combinations of profound and quaint 

 learning with direct and close observation of nature which were 

 contributed by Broderip to the ' New Monthly Magazine ' and to 

 * Frazer's Magazine,' and which he afterwards collected and re- 

 printed in the volumes entitled ' Zoological Recreations ' (8vo, 



