484 Eminent Living Geologists — Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.8. 



Warwickshire, however, naturally claimed his especial attention. 

 Soon after his arrival at Rowington, he became a member of the 

 Warwickshire Natural History and Archgeological Society (founded 

 in 1836), and he was at once elected an Honorary Curator of Geology 

 in the Society's Museum at Warwick. Many years later (1894) he 

 was elected President of this Society. Field-meetings were naturally 

 regarded by Mr. Brodie as essential for the proper pursuit of natural 

 history, and in 1854 he was the means of founding the Warwickshire 

 Naturalists' and Archgeologists' Field Club, of which he was the first 

 Vice-President and Honorary Secretary. He was elected President 

 in 1888. Mr. S. S. Stanley, who for some years acted as junior 

 Honorary Secretary of the Warwickshire Field Club with Mr. Brodie, 

 speaks of the new life and energy which the Vicar of Rowington 

 infused among the naturalists and archaeologists of Warwickshire. 

 Foremost as a leader in field-excursions, he kindled in many others 

 an interest in science, as much by his unfailing enthusiasm and 

 good-humour as by his wide knowledge and experience. 



In 1855, Mr. Brodie was appointed to the rectory of Baddesley 

 Clinton, a neighbouring village to the north of Eowington ; and, 

 with the aid of his son, the Eev. F. M. Brodie, he has continued to 

 discharge the many duties connected with his two parishes. 



To the Proceedings of the Warwickshire Natural History Society, 

 and of the Field Club, Mr. Brodie has contributed vei'y numerous 

 papers and addresses, dealing largely with the Keuper and Eheetio 

 formations, the Lias, and various Drift deposits. Most important 

 discoveries of Fish-remains, and also of Mollusca, in the Keuper 

 formation of Warwickshire, have thus been recorded ; while the 

 tracts of Lower Lias on the borders of Shropshire and Cheshire, 

 and in Cumberland, have not been unnoticed. 



In 1858 Mr. Brodie contributed a series of articles on the Geology 

 of Gloucestershire to the first volume of the Geologist, and since 

 then he has sent many papers to the Geological Society, the British 

 Association, and the Geological Magazine. Among these articles, 

 those on the Purbeck Beds of Brill, and the Ehgetic Beds near 

 Wells, in Somerset, may be mentioned. So recently as August of 

 the present year he sent a communication to be read at the field- 

 meeting of the Warwickshire Naturalists' Club, held at Wilmcote. 



In the course of his long life, Mr. Brodie has formed a most 

 valuable and extensive geological collection, estimated to comprise 

 upwards of 25,000 specimens. The rarer and unique examples 

 have now been placed in the British Museum (Natural History), 

 Cromwell Eoad ; others have unfortunately been dispersed among 

 foreign museums, and a considerable portion in one of our Colonies. 



In 1887 the Murchison Medal was awarded to Mr. Brodie by the 

 Council of the Geological Society, and at that date the President, 

 Professor Judd, remarked : " Never, probably, has an award of this 

 Society been made to one who can look back upon so long a record 

 of faithful services to Geology as yourself. .... A dweller in 

 the provinces, you have shown how the advancement of our science | 

 may best be promoted under those conditions." 



