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We may add that the mammillaris-bed at Copt Point yielded to 

 the researches of Messrs. H. and W. Keeping an example of Thetis 

 minor phosphatized. Of course it may he argued that it was derived. 



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SIR ANTONIO BRADY, KNT., J. P., F.G.S. 



Born 1811 ; Died 12th December, 1881. 



It is always with a keen feeling of regret that we record the loss 

 from the scientific ranks of men whose faces, as well as their names, 

 were familiar to us by long association, and who were for years 

 fellow- workers in the same geological area. Such a one was Sir 

 Antonio Brady, F.G.S., who passed from among us on the 12th of 

 December, 1881, from an affection of the heart. 



He was the eldest son of the late Mr. Anthony Brady, of the 

 Eoyal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth, by his marriage with 

 Marianne, daughter of Mr. Francis Perigal. Born in Ibll, he 

 entered the Civil Service of the Navy as a junior clerk in the 

 Victualling Yard, Deptford, more than fifty years since. After 

 serving in various offices, having been promoted to head-quarters, 

 he became head of the Contract Office and Registrar of Public 

 Securities in 1854, subsequently assisting to reorganize that ofiice. 

 After the reorganization of the office he was appointed first super- 

 intendent of the Purchase and Contract Department, retiring from 

 the service in 1870, when he received the honour of knighthood. 

 Since his retirement from the public service. Sir Antonio has 

 devoted his energies to the service of the public, and having taken 

 a leading part in the preservation of Epping Forest for the people, 

 was appointed a judge in the "Verderer's Court for the Forest of 

 Epping." He also took great interest in the work of church 

 extension, and was a member of the Ray, the PaliBontographical 

 and Geological Societies. He was in the Commission of the Peace 

 for Westminster. The deceased married, in 1837, Maria, eldest 

 daughter of the late Mr. George Kelner, of Ipswich, by whom he 

 leaves a son, the Eev. Nicholas Brady, M.A., and two daughters. 



But it is in his character of a geologist that we must now speak 

 of Sir Antonio Brady. So long ago as 1844 his attention was 

 attracted to the wonderful deposits of brickearth which occupy the 

 Valley of the Boding at Ilford, within a mile of his residence. 

 Encouraged by Professor Owen and other eminent palaeontologists, 

 whose society he so loved to enjoy at his hospitable home at Mary- 

 land Point, Stratford, he commenced to collect the rich series of 

 Mammalian remains which the Thames Valley brickearths yield. 

 Owing, however, to their porous nature, the bones had lost, during 

 their long interment, all their gelatine, and the earlier "finds," 

 when exhumed, were so soft and friable that they crumbled beneath 

 the touch, and it was not until fresh gelatine had been introduced 

 that it was found possible to preserve these magnificent remains of 

 the old inhabitants of this district. In bis Catalogue of the Pleisto- 

 cene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex (1874, 4to. printed for private 



