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L. S. BRADY, 1867-1921. 



Born at Sunderland, commencing at an early age about 

 46 years ago, L. S. Brady and I collected lepidoptera diligently, 

 as children do, and after a lapse of a few years, owing to school 

 life, we both took the hobby up seriously about 1889, and for 

 many years spent holidays and spare time collecting and 

 observing in England, Wales and Scotland His keen sight 

 was invaluable on these occasions — ova of Agrotis Ashwoythii,. 

 on the Welsh rocks, fell to our lot with other species, whilst at 

 all times he was an enthusiastic, well read, and most interesting 

 companion to anyone who knew him well enough to penetrate 

 the reserve and reach the man himself. He was a specially 

 successful hand at breeding insects ab ovo, always kept full and 

 careful notes of his captures and observations, and during 

 recent years had been working steadily on the genitalia of 

 more obscure groups which promised to give good results, 

 but now, I fear, of no avail. 



For several years his health had not been good and a severe 

 illness in 1920 left his constitution much shaken. 



Early in April a sudden attack of double pneumonia 

 developed, and in a few days, on April nth, aged 53, he passed 

 away, leaving a widow and child to mourn his loss, which 

 is shared by very many who have met him at odd times and 

 collected with him, among whom the writer includes himself 

 as his oldest, closest and most deeply attached friend. — 

 J AS. W. CoRDER, Sunderland. 



To the foregoing we should like to add that Brady, although 

 born at Sunderland, removed to Sheffield many years ago, and 

 resided there until his death. He did much valuable work 

 among the lepidoptera of our county, adding Tortrix semialbana 

 and Penthina nigricostana to the Yorkshire List. About twenty 

 years ago he brought forward an exceedingly fine melanic form 

 of Venusia camhricaria (var. hradyi) from the woods in the 

 Sheffield district, and since then he and the present writer 

 have found it to occur there in abundance, and to be the pre- 

 vailing form, though even yet, so far as we know, it has not 

 been observed in any other district in Britain. Brady also 

 found Eiipithecia isogrammata in profusion on Clematis at 

 Wadworth, Doncaster, and he added other local species to 

 various Yorkshire localities. As Mr. Corder says, he was 

 reserved in his character, but those of us who knew him well, 

 and had frequently made enjoyable collecting expeditions 

 with him, and had spent winter evenings with him in study 

 over the cabinet specimens, know what a kindly disposition 

 he had, and how unreservedly he imparted his knowledge (and 

 his duplicate specimens) to his friends. — G. T. P. 



1921 June 1 



