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Eeddome Collection will find a resting-place in the Katural History 

 Museum alon2;side species found by Eenson, many made by Henry 

 and William Blauford, Theobald, myself, and others. This will make 

 the collection from India and adjacent countries almost complete and 

 wonderfully rich in types. For this generous gift we have to thank 

 his widow, who, having a deep interest in what it took hours and 

 hours of her husband's life to bring together, desired to see it placed 

 where it would be most appreciated and helpful to those engaged 

 in malacological and conchological investigations. This is quite 

 what Colonel Beddome would have desired, for I know that in the 

 preparation of the Mollusca volume of the " Fauna of British India" 

 Beddome placed his collection at the disposal of Dr. Blanford and 

 assisted him in every way. 



Colonel Beddome's death on the 23rd February, 1911, was sudden 

 and quite unexpected by his conchological friends. He attended the 

 Council Meeting of this Society on 2()th January, and I met him just 

 before it began, and we talked over a new species of Oxytes he 

 had just received from Burma and which is now named after him. 

 He was the eldest son of Richard Boswell Brandon Beddome, solicitor, 

 of Clapham Common, S.AV., and was born 12th May, 1830, so was 

 in his 81st year. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and 

 Hart's Army List gives the following dates of his commissions : 

 Ensign 20th January, 1848; Lieutenant 15th November, 1853; 

 Captain 18th February, 1861; Major 20th January, 1868; Lieut.- 

 Colouel 20th January, 1874; Colonel 20th January, 1879. I have 

 been able to glean that he first studied for the legal profession, 

 but he could not get interested in it, and, preferring a life abroad, 

 entered the Army in the Hon. East India Company's service. 

 Obtaining a direct cadetship, and going out to India, he joined the 

 42nd Madras Native Infantry, and was with that regiment at 

 Jabbalpur in 1856, being at that time Quartermaster and Interpreter 

 of the regiment ; from there he went to Secunderabad, and soon after 

 his arrival at this station, about the end of the year 1856, he was 

 appointed to the Madras Forest Department, and never again rejoined 

 his regiment. 



H. H. GoDWIN-AuSTEN. 



