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chambers of Godfrey Sykes, having as fellow-students, Patterson 

 and Coleridge, who were subsequently raised to the Bench, In 

 1817 Mr. Broderip was called to the Bar, and selected the AVestern 

 Circuit. He soon became favourably known as a diligent pro- 

 secutor of the dry and difficult studies of his profession. He 

 published an edition of ' Callis on Sewers,' which has become a 

 law classic ; and, in conjunction with Mr. BLugham, tlie present 

 metropolitan magistrate, he brought ou^t three volumes of " Law 

 Eeports." Lord Sidmouth, in 1822, appointed Mr. Broderip ma- 

 gistrate at the Thames Police Office. 



The arduous duties of police magistrate were performed by 

 Mr, Broderip at that office, and subsequently at the Westminster 

 Court, during thirt3^-four years, with a combination of sound legal 

 knowledge, firmness, good sense, kindly consideration, and com- 

 ])assionate mercy in every admissible case, wliich established his 

 reputation as one of the best magistrates of which this vast metro- 

 polis has had the advantage, and which gained for him the con- 

 fidence and esteem of each successive Minister for the Home 

 Department. 



The first seat of his judicial labours was in the midst of that 

 mighty fleet which brings to the port of London the treasures and 

 rarities of the world. Mr. Broderip's early fondness for Natural 

 History was here revived, and he availed himself of his environ- 

 ment to begin the formation of those collections of natural objects 

 which had been the source of the cherished pleasures of his 

 childhood. 



The conchological cabinet of Mr. Broderip soon became classical ; 

 and there were few among the foreign Professors resorting to 

 London who did not avail themselves of Broderip's urbanity and 

 liberality, to visit and inspect the treasures Avhich were accumu- 

 lated in his chambers in Gray's Inn. This collection was ulti- 

 mately purchased by the British Museum. 



Mr. Broderip was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1824, of the Geological Society in 1825, and of the Eoyal Society 

 in 1828. He cooperated zealously with Sir Stamford Baffles, Sir 

 Humphry Davj^, Joseph Sabine, and Vigors in the formation of 

 the Zoological Society, of which he was one of the original Fel- 

 lows and Members of Council. He accepted the office of Secretary 

 of the Geological Society, and performed the arduous duties of 

 that office, conjointly with Murchison, to the year 1830. In a 

 note to the wiiter, Sii' Roderick testifies to Mr. Broderip's labours 

 of that period : " My coadjutor preserved the liieidus ordo of our 



