272 Geology. 



On the death of Richard Bright, senior, Ham Green was left to Benjamin 

 Heywood, who sold it, and either took the whole collection to Brand 

 Lodge or handed it over to Henry at Crawley. In any case, when 

 B. H. Bright died three years later, his son Benjamin inherited Crawley, 

 and presented the collection to the British Museum in 1873. The onerous 

 task of repacking was accomplished by William Davies of the Geological 

 Department. Besides the valuable minerals and the vertebrate remains, 

 there were over 3000 fossil invertebrates, chiefly British, but from having 

 been left in rooms exposed to damp, mice, and nesting birds, all manu- 

 scripts and labels had perished. 



[For details of family history thanks are due to Dr. J. Franck Bright, 

 Master of University College, Oxford, and a son of Dr. E. Bright.] 



Bright (RICHARD) [1789-1858] 

 See BRIGHT, RICHABD. 



Bright (ROBERT) 



See BRIGHT, RICHABD. 



British Association 



Presented Middle Eocene plant remains from Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, 

 in 1867 ; remains of Vertebrata and Mollusca from the caverns of Borneo, 

 1879. 



Brodie (PETER BELLINGER) [1815-1897] 



Brodie's love for geology begun under the influence of Win. Clift, 

 curator of the College of Surgeons, was fostered by Sedgwick at 

 Cambridge, and he was the first to collect land and fresh-water shells 

 from the Pleistocene deposit of Barnwell. In 1838 he went as curate to 

 Wylye, north of the Vale of Wardour, where he discovered Archxoniscus 

 brodiei. Appointed in 1840 to a curacy in Buckinghamshire, he collected 

 in the Portland and Purbeck beds near Aylesbury. For the next thirteen 

 years he was rector of Down Hatherley in the Vale of Gloucester, and 

 collected largely in the Rhsetic, Liassic, and Oolitic rocks of the district, 

 reading geological papers before the Geological Society and the Cotteswold 

 Field Club. From 1853 until his death he was vicar of Rowington, 

 Warwickshire, where he occasionally met with rare fossils in the Keuper 

 Formation, and extended his researches to the Upper Silurian of Hereford- 

 shire and the Jurassic rocks of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. All 

 specimens collected by him bore an exact record of the formation and 

 locality whence they were obtained, sometimes with other memoranda, 

 the labels being in his own handwriting on miscellaneous scraps of paper, 

 and usually gummed to the matrix. Brodie's general collection of over 

 25,000 fossils included many valuable type-specimens, and an extensive 

 selection from it was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 

 1895. The rest was dispersed among various museums abroad, the 

 principal part being purchased by the University of Vienna. His special 

 collection was that of fossil insects, illustrating his small volume, "A 

 History of the Fossil Insects hi the Secondary Rocks of England " (1845), 

 prepared with the aid of Prof. J. 0. Westwood, and several later papers. 

 This unique collection, the principal work of his scientific career, was 

 retained by Brodie until his death, and was purchased by the Trustees 

 from his executors in 1898. Brodie also made several small donations to 

 the Museum from 1853 onwards. His numerous gifts to the Warwickshire 

 Natural History Society, of which he was elected president in 1894, 

 embrace many rare and fine fossils. In addition to the fossil insects, the 



