Obituary — Henry Bowman Brady. 95 



HENRY BOWMAN BRADY, 



LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S., F.C.S., ETC., 



Was born at Gateshead, Newcastle-on-Tyne, February 23rd, 1835, 

 and died at Bournemouth, January 10th, 1891. From his father, 

 Mr. Henry Brady, who belonged to the Society of Friends, and who 

 was a surgeon in extensive practice for fifty years, a true lover of 

 nature, and accomplished botanist, he inherited similar tastes ; and 

 his love of Natural History, carefully nurtured at home and at school, 

 strengthened with his years. His first schoolmaster was Mr. Storey, 

 an ardent naturalist, and Mr. Thos. Belt, the naturalist of Nicaragua, 

 was his school- fellow. After an apprenticeship to a chemist at 

 Leeds, he studied under Dr. Thomas Richardson (the late Professor 

 Marreco being a fellow-student) in the laboratory which afterwards 

 became the Chemical Department of the College of Physical Science. 

 After passing the examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society, he 

 carried on the business of manufacturing and pharmaceutical chemist 

 in Moseley Street, Newcastle, from 1855 to 1876, when he was 

 succeeded by his friend Mr. N. H. Martin, Mr. Brady was Member 

 of the Council and one of the Examiners of the Pharmaceutical 

 ■Society. He was the originator of the Pharmaceutical Congress, 

 and its President in 1872-3 ; and he contributed valuable papers to 

 the Pharmaceutical Journal. 



In his native city he lectured on Botany at the Durham College ; 

 and he was actively associated with the eminent naturalists — Alder, 

 Albany and John Hancock, Howse, Hewitson, Wailes, Norman, 

 G. S. Brady (his brother), Embleton, and others ; and communicated 

 papers, chiefly on recent Foraminifera, to the Natural History Society 

 of Northumberland and Durham and the Tyneside Field -Club. 

 Other papers he contributed to the British Association, the Royal 

 Society, Linnean Society, Royal Microscopical Society, the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History, the Geological Society, and the 

 Geological Magazine. His chief work, however, has been the 

 two magnificent quarto volumes of the "Challenger" Report on 

 the Foraminifera collected in 1873-6. He began his labour of love 

 in 1878, and supplied the manuscript for 814 pages of text, and 

 superintended the 115 excellent plates, in 1882-4.^ This most pains- 

 taking and conscientious work is a perfect storehouse of facts and 

 philosophic deductions, and is the highest work on Foraminifera. 

 His accumulated knowledge of these organisms and their extensive 

 literature, — his own careful researches during voyages in many 

 parts of the world, — and his friendly intercommunication with 

 naturalists throughout Europe — enriched this noble work with very 

 much that could not have been expected from any other naturalist. 



Among his researches Mr. Brady frequently dealt with Fossil 

 Foraminifera, and thereby did good service to Geology. Joining 



^ The foregoing has heen for the most part derived from the excellent and warm- 

 hearted obituary in the "Newcastle Daily Journal " for January 15, 1891. 



