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on our Council. In the same year the University of Aberdeen con- 

 ferred upon him the degree of LL.D., in recognition of his scientific 

 work, and he also received from the Emperor of Austria a valuable 

 gold medal, as a mark of his appreciation of the valuable assistance 

 which Mr. Brady had rendered to the Hof- Museum. 



He was a man of slight physique and delicate health, and in later 

 years he was compelled to leave his business and seek refuge in 

 warmer climates than our own. In his travels he visited the United 

 States of America, the Upper Nile, India, Ceylon, Japan, Java, 

 Australia, New Zealand, and various islands of the Pacific Ocean. 

 His last journey was in the winter of 1890, when, with some friends, 

 he visited Cairo and ascended the Nile. He was laid up at Cairo 

 with oedema of the feet and legs, from which he never quite recovered, 

 but the actual cause of his death, which occurred on the 10th of 

 January, 1891, was a rapid attack of pneumonia. 



He accomplished an immense amount of work, which remains as a 

 monument to his unwearied patience and industry. His amiability 

 won for him a large circle of friends, and he could have wished no 

 higher tribute to his memory than that offered by Dr. Michael Foster, 

 who wrote as follows in * Nature,' January 29th, 1891 : " Science 

 has lost a steady and fruitful worker, and many men of science 

 have lost a friend and a helpmate whose place they feel no one 

 else can fill. His wide knowledge of many branches of scientific 

 inquiry and his large acquaintance with scientific men made the 

 hours spent with him always profitable ; his sympathy with art 

 and literature, and that special knowledge of men and things which 

 belongs only to the travelled man, made him welcome also where 

 science was unknown, while the brave patience with which he bore 

 the many troubles of enfeebled health, his unselfish thoughtfulness 

 for interests other than his own, and a sense of humour which, when 

 needed, led him to desert his usual staid demeanour for the merriment 

 of the moment, endeared him to all his friends." 



The catalogues of the Royal Society show that, down to 1883, Mr. 

 Brady was the author of thirty papers and monographs. He has 

 bequeathed to the Society the very valuable portion of his library 

 which relates to the study of the Protozoa. This collection, which 

 now forms a distinct section of the Society's Library, and for the 

 maintenance and increase of which he made provision, consists of 

 some 150 volumes, including, besides many older works on the subject 

 of great rarity and value, his extensive series of collected excerpt 

 ' Memoirs and Papers relating to the Foraminifera,' gathered, 

 arranged, and annotated by him during many years of labour. 



W, C. E.-A. 



