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Hancock, and others are those of men whom Newcastle has contri- 

 buted to the roll of English naturalists, and the Brady family would 

 seem to have been thoroughly permeated with the local enthusiasm 

 for the study of natural history. 



On leaving school, in 1850, Brady was apprenticed to the late Mr. 

 Thomas Harvey, pharmaceutical chemist, of Leeds, and in 1855 he 

 entered upon business for himself in Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



His conspicuous ability soon gained for him the support of the 

 medical profession and the public, and he laid the foundation of the 

 very extensive business in wholesale and retail pharmacy and scien- 

 tific apparatus subsequently conducted by the' firm of Brady and 

 Martin. During the twenty -one years of his business life, Mr. Brady 

 was closely identified with the Pharmaceutical Society, and he 

 became the President of the British Pharmaceutical Conference in 

 1872. He was for many years on the Council of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society, and greatly contributed to the progress of that body by 

 developing the scientific education of pharmaceutical chemists. 



His more direct contributions to science were in the form of re- 

 searches in natural history, especially on the Foraminifera. His first 

 publication seems to have been a contribution, in 1863, to the British 

 Association, as a report on the dredging of the Northumberland coast 

 and Dogger Bank ; his last was a paper which appeared only a short 

 time ago, on the minute organisms with which his name will always 

 be connected. Between these two he published a large number of 

 researches, including a monograph on Carboniferous and Permian 

 Foraminifera, an exhaustive report on the Foraminifera of the " Chal- 

 lenger " Expedition, as well as monographs on Parkeria and Loftusia, 

 and on Polymorphina, in which he was joint author with Mr. W. K. 

 Parker, F.R.S., and Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. The report on 

 the Foraminifera is embodied in two quarto volumes, one containing 

 814 pages of text, and the other 114 plates, which possess great artistic 

 merit. The bibliography of the subject alone occupies forty-six pages 

 of the first volume. The illustrations of such works are of much 

 importance, and the author gave to this department of his work the 

 fastidious care of a skilled draughtsman. By these works he not 

 only established a position both in this country and abroad as one of 

 the highest authorities on the subject, but, what is of more import- 

 ance, largely advanced our knowledge. Every one of his papers is 

 characterised by the most conscientious accuracy and justice ; and 

 though his attention was largely directed to classification and to the 

 morphological points therein involved, his mind, as several of his 

 papers indicate, was also occupied with the wider problems of mor- 

 phological and biological interest which the study of the* 

 forms suggests. 



In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of this Society, and in 1888 served 



