LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. XXV 



February, 1859, Mr. Broderip dined alone, at his chambers, re- 

 turned to his favourite occupation in the evening, and retired to 

 rest, leaving some sheets of his neat and fair MS. on his writing- 

 table. He became unwell in the night, but did not consider him- 

 self so ill as to require medical aid ; when it was obtained in the 

 course of the following day, the symptoms of a fatal serous 

 apoplexy had supervened, and he expired on the night of the 

 27th of February, aged 70. 



Sir Arthur Brooke de Capell BrooJce, Bart., M.A., was born in 

 Bolton Street, May Fair, in the year 1791, and was educated at 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his degree of Bachelor 

 of Arts in 1810. In the same year he entered the army, and 

 took the rank of Major in 1846. In 1823 he became a Fellow of 

 the Linnean and of the E-oyal Societies, and subsequently also of 

 the Geological. He died on the 6th of last December, at his seat, 

 Oakley Hall, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, in the 68th 

 year of his age. 



In offering a brief sketch of the career of the greatest Botanist 

 of the age, who for half a centiiry formed the glory and ornament 

 of our Society, our attention is chiefly arrested by his intense 

 devotion to his favourite study, and by the calm, reflecting, and 

 philosophical spirit which he brought to bear upon its pursuit, the 

 combination of which qualities were alone sufficient to raise him, 

 by his own unassisted efforts, to the highest position in the world 

 of Science. Bohert Brown, Bsq., D.G.L., was the second and 

 only surviving son of the Eev. James Brown, A.M., Episcopalian 

 Minister of Montrose, by Helen, daughter of the Eev. Eobert 

 Taylor, and was born in that town on the 21st of December, 1773. 

 Several generations of his maternal ancestors were, like his father, 

 ministers of the Scottish Episcopalian Church, and from them lie 

 appears to have inherited a strong attachment to logical and meta- 

 physical studies, the effects of which are so strikingly manifested 

 in the philosophical character of his botanical investigations. At 

 an early age he was sent to the Gi'ammar-school of his native 

 town, where among his contemporaries was a boy of kindred 

 talents, the late Mr. James Mill, with whom he maintained 

 through life an uninterrupted intimacy. In 1787 he was entered 

 at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he immediately obtained 

 a Ramsay bursary in Philosophy ; and about two years afterwards, 

 on his father quitting Montrose to reside in Edinburgh, he was 

 removed to the University of that city, in which he continued his 

 studies for several years, but without taking a degree, although 



