indebted to him for assistance in the initial difficulties of the mag- 

 netograph work, a department of the Observatory to which Mr. Jef- 

 fery paid a constant personal attention. He also retained much 

 affection for the Falmonth Grammar School, where he received his 

 early education, and this he was always ready to show by his advice 

 and pecuniary support. His loss will be severely felt by all these 

 institutions. 



Mr. Jeffery wns elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 3, 

 1880, but, owing to the distance of his residence from London, he 

 rarely had an opportunity of attending the meetings. It was, how- 

 ever, a great delight to him to spend a few weeks in London each 

 year, and he usually chose the months of May or June, so that he 

 might enjoy the pleasing association with his scientific friends at one 

 of the annual conversaziones. He also took great interest in the 

 meetirgs of the British Association for the Advancemement of Science, 

 at which he was a frequent attendant, and a contributor of papers. 

 For some years past Mr. Jeffery was troubled, more or less, with an 

 internal complaint which occasionally caused him considerable per- 

 sonal inconvenience, and, latterly, he suffered from the effects of in- 

 somnia, but still he remained active to within a fortnight of his 

 death, often walking from Falmouth to Truro, a distance of about nine 

 or ten miles, without any apparent fatigue. He was a great lover of 

 long- walking exercise, and, even within a few weeks of his death, 

 though in ill -health, he took a wearying walk of about twelve miles. 

 When the writer visited him in the past summer, Mr. Jeffery ap- 

 peared to be in better health than usual ; but in the middle of October 

 the disease became much aggravated, necessitating an operation, and, 

 after a short illness, accompanied by much suffering, he gradually 

 sank. On the Saturday before his death he became partially uncon- 

 scious, and on the Monday following wholly so, and in this condition 

 he passed away, peacefully, on the morning of Tuesday, November 

 3, 1891, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. Three days afterwards 

 his remains were interred in the family vault, with his father and 

 mother, at Gwennap, the country home of his early youth. 



E. D. 



HENRY BOWMAN BRADY, LL.D., was born in 1835. He was the 

 second son of Henry Brady, of Gateshead, who for fifty years carried 

 on an extensive practice as surgeon in that town. He was educated 

 at the schools of the Society of Friends, at Ackworth, and at Tulketh 

 Hall, near Preston. His father was a naturalist, and instilled into 

 his son a love of nature, which was fostered at his first school ; but 

 the influence that shaped bis mature career came from the colony of 

 naturalists which has had its headquarters at Newcastle-on-Tyne for 

 several generations. The names of Bewick, Alder, Albany and John 



