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"Insects Abroad;" "Out of Doors," being a selection of 

 Articles on Practical Natural History; and his "Bible 

 Animals," giving a description of every living creature 

 mentioned in the Scriptures, with many other writings of a 

 like description, will help to keep amongst us his name as a 

 household word for many years to come. He left a widow 

 and large family to mourn his loss. His eldest son, the Rev. 

 Theodore Wood, is well known to many of us as an ardent 

 student and successful collector of British Coleoptera, and as 

 the author of several little works on elementary and economic 

 Entomology. 



William Brodrick, whose name we cannot omit, passed 

 away at the ripe age of seventy-four, deeply regretted almost 

 as much by those who knew him by reputation only, as by 

 the many personal friends he has left behind. He died on 

 December 2 1st, 1888, at Littlehill, Chudleigh, North Devon, 

 where he had resided for upwards of twenty years. He was 

 educated at Harrow, and took his degree at University 

 College, Oxford. Apropos of his life-long love for Natural 

 History, he used to say that he never learned anything at 

 Harrow, but how to catch birds, yet his degree pointed to 

 something beyond that. He studied medicine, but never 

 chose to practice. Settling down at Belford, Northumberland, 

 he became an enthusiastic lover of falconry, hawking over the 

 moor of his uncle, Mr. Selby, of Ixizel, a name well-known to 

 ornithologists. Here he procured and trained many fine 

 falcons and tiercels ; and it is as a writer on falconry, and an 

 admirable draughtsman and painter of birds of prey, that 

 Mr. Brodrick was and will be widely known. In 1855 he 

 published his admirable work, " Falconry in the British Isles," 

 the illustrations to which were all drawn by himself from life, 

 he being assisted in the letterpress by his friend Captain F. 

 H. Salvin. He will also be remembered by his charming 

 folio plates of Hawks, entitled " Falconers' Favourites." His 

 life-long study of the habits and attitudes of birds of prey, in 

 motion and at rest, with his skill as a taxidermist, has 

 resulted in the production of some of the most remarkable 

 groups of stuffed birds, with which we are acquainted. He 

 has also left behind him some most wonderful drawings of the 

 external form and internal structure of British Mollusca and 



