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the Habits and Structure of Paguri and other Crustacea," a "Notice 

 on the Mus messorius" together with several valuable conchological 

 articles. The chief bulk of Mr. Broderip's original writings on 

 Malacology was consigned to the ' Proceedings ' and * Transactions ' 

 of the Zoological Society. I may refer to the Indexes of those col- 

 lections and publications, and to the f Bibliographia Zoologise et 

 Geologiae,' published by the Ray Society, for the titles of these 

 numerous and valuable memoirs. 



" Few naturalists have more closely observed none perhaps have 

 more graphically and pleasingly described the habits of animals. 

 Mr. Broderip's ' Account of the Manners of a tame Beaver,' one 

 of the pets that tenanted his chambers, published in the work en- 

 titled ' The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society ' (vol. i. 

 p. 167), affords a favourable example of his tact as an observer and 

 power as a writer. Had circumstances permitted, he would have 

 been a Field Naturalist second only to Gilbert White. When his 

 friend Professor Owen became, through Royal favour, the tenant of 

 one of the lodges in Richmond Park, Broderip would spend there 

 much time in close observation of zoological phenomena afforded by 

 the garden and the wooded vicinity of Sheen Gate. A note an- 

 nouncing the commencement of nidification in the adjacent rookery, 

 or the arrival of a migratory song-bird, would immediately bring the 

 retired Police Magistrate to Richmond Park. Many references to 

 facts so observed are made in those delightful combinations of pro- 

 found and quaint learning with direct and close observation of nature 

 which were contributed by Broderip to the ' New Monthly Maga- 

 zine ' and to c Frazer's Magazine,' and which he afterwards collected 

 and reprinted in the volumes entitled ' Zoological Recreations ' (8vo, 

 1847), and * Leaves from the Note-book of a Naturalist' (8vo, 

 1851). 



" Mr. Broderip was ever ready to aid a brother Naturalist. His col- 

 lections, his rare zoological library, his pure classical taste and varied 

 accomplishments, made the assistance he was able to give most valu- 

 able. We find it freely acknowledged in the early editions of Sir 

 C. Ly ell's ' Principles of Geology,' in the ' British Fishes ' of Yarrell, 

 in the ' Silurian System ' of Murchison, and the * Bridgewater 

 Treatise ' of Buckland. Broderip communicated a most valuable 

 Table 01 the Situations and Depths at which recent Genera of 



