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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Henry Bowman Beady, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



Dr. Beady, the leading authority on the Eoraminifera, died at 

 Bournemouth on January 10. His family originally came from 

 Swaledale, in Yorkshire ; and his grandfather resided at Staindrop, 

 in the county of Durham. His father, Mr. Henrj r Brady, had an 

 extensive practice as a surgeon at Gateshead-on-Tyno. Here H. B. 

 Brady was born, February 23, 1835. His father instilled into his 

 children the love which he himself had for the study of nature, and 

 especially of botany. His first schoolmaster was Mr. John Storey, 

 where Belt, the naturalist, was a fellow pupil. He next was sent 

 to Ackworth, in Cleveland, a well-known school connected with the 

 Society of Friends, to which Mr. Brady's family belonged ; and 

 subsequently to Tulketh HaU, near Preston. After leaving school 

 he was apprenticed to the late Thomas Harvey, a pharmaceutical 

 chemist at Leeds. On the completion of his apprenticeship he studied 

 under Dr. Thomas Richardson at Newcastle ; and at this time Tuffen 

 West, who was at Gateshead, did much to foster Brady's love of 

 natural history. In 1855 he started business on his own account 

 as a pharmaceutical chemist in Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

 Here his energy, his close attention to business, and the first-class 

 character of everything he supplied soon resulted in the development 

 of an extensive connexion not only in dispensing but among the 

 medical men of the north of England and elsewhere, and ultimately 

 to a large export trade. In 1876 Brady had amassed a sufficient 

 fortune to enable him to retire from business. He had never been 

 strong in health, and attacks of emphysema had necessitated his 

 often going abroad for the winter months. Subsequently to 1876 

 he spent a large portion of his life in travel. He twice went round 

 the world. In 1878 he made a most interesting expedition in 

 Marocco. In 1884, during a voyage round the world, much time 

 was spent in the Fiji Islands. In 1886 he went to the Mediter- 

 ranean, staying for longer periods in Africa, Italy, and Greece. In 

 1888 he stayed some time in Ceylon, and subsequently traversed 

 the length of India. In 1889-90 he visited Egypt and ascended 

 the Nile ; on returning he was laid up at Cairo with oedema of the 

 feet and legs, and from this he never entirely recovered. Last autumn, 

 acting under advice, after spending the summer at Brighton, he re- 

 solved not to winter abroad, but to go to the mild climate of Bourne- 

 mouth. The severity of the last two months was not anticipated. On 

 the 3rd of January the writer of this notice received a letter from him 

 in which he said " the cold weather has seriously affected me," and 

 that he had not been out of the house moro than two or three times 

 during the previous month. On January 8 his brother, Professor 

 G. S. Brady, received a telegram to say he was ill, and immediately 

 left Sunderland for Bournemouth ; on arriving he found Henry 

 buoyed tip by his usual cheerful spirits, but suffering from an attack 

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