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and Co. He was an able and enthusiastic entomologist, and 

 formed a large collection of Coleoptera, but he did not contribute 

 any communication to this Society upon the subject of his studies. 

 He was elected a Fellow in 1873. He died at his residence in 

 Windsor Forest, June 20th, 1893, aged 72. 



GrEORaE Bbook, of Huddersfield, the third successive bearer of 

 the name, was born on March 17th, 1857. He was educated at 

 the Friends' School, Alderley Edge, and afterwards studied for 

 a couple of years at the Owens College, Manchester, before 

 joining his father in business at Huddersfield. 



The development of his taste for Natural History was due in 

 a great measure to his association with the late Mr. Jas. W. 

 Davis, of Halifax, and the small circle of friends who were at 

 that time interesting themselves in biological research and the 

 investigation of the Fauna and Flora of the W. Eiding of York- 

 shire. 



Being especially attracted by the charms of marine zoology, 

 Brook had an excellent aquarium constructed at his home in 

 Huddersfield, and was there able to carry out a series of careful 

 studies of the habits and development of a number of animal 

 forms, but chiefly fishes and Crustacea, the latter being the group 

 to which he originally determined to devote himself specially. 



Having decided to relinquish business pursuits, he was appointed 

 in 1884 lecturer on Comparative Embryology to the University 

 of Edinburgh — a position he continued to occupy until his death. 

 From 1884 to 1887 he held the post of scientific assistant to the 

 Scottish Fishery Board, in which capacity he did excellent work, 

 and published a number of valuable notes and reports upon food- 

 fishes. 



In 1889 he drew up a masterly report on the Antipatharia 

 of the ' Challenger ' Expedition — a work which has been spoken 

 of as " one of the most praiseworthy " memoirs of that great 

 undertaking. This led to his engagement in 1890 by the 

 Trustees of the British Museum for the arrangement and cata- 

 loguing of their large collection of Stony Corals. The first in- 

 stalment of this work, entitled a ' Catalogue of the Grenus 

 Madrepora ' — a large quarto volume with 35 beautiful plates — 

 was only published within a week of the Author's death. It is 

 a monument of careful and painstaking investigation, which 

 ranks its author among the foremost of Actinologists, and empha- 

 sizes the loss which British Zoology has sustained in his early 

 death. 



In addition to these larger works, Mr. Brook communicated a 

 number of papers to different scientific societies — several being 

 printed in our own Journal. 



He was Secretary to the Huddersfield Naturalists' Society, 

 and to the Scottish Microscopical Society, of which he was a 

 founder. He was for three years a Vice-President of the E-oyal 



