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at times to the Upper Silurian and passage-beds of Herefordshire, 

 and recording the occurrence therein of Eurypterus and Pterygotus, 

 as well as land-plants. He still contributed an occasional paper to the 

 Cotteswold Club, on the Inferior Oolite and Lias of Northampton- 

 shire, and on the Lias of Barrow in Leicestershire. 



' Warwickshire, however, naturally claimed his especial attention. 

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

 Warwickshire Natural History & Archaeological Society (founded 

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

 in the Society's Museum at Warwick. Pield-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' & Archaeologists' Field Club, of which he was the first 

 Vice-President and Honorary Secretary. Mr. S. S. Stanley, who 

 for some years acted as junior Honorary Secretary of the Warwick- 

 shire Eield 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. 



' To the Proceedings of the Warwickshire Natural History Society, 

 and of the Field Club, Mr. Brodie contributed very numerous papers 

 and addresses, dealing largely with the Keuper and ilhaetic forma- 

 tions, the Lias, and various Drift-deposits. Most important dis- 

 coveries of fish-remains, and also of moUusca, 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 Rhsetic Beds near Wells, 

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

 present year [1897] he sent a communication to be read at the 

 field-meeting of the Warwickshire Naturalists' & Archaeologists' 

 Field Club, held at Wilmcote. 



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

 and extensive geological collection, estimated to comprise upwards 

 of 25,000 specimens. The rarer and unique examples have now 



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