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been placed in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell 

 Road ; 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 this Society, and at that date the President, Prof. 

 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 these conditions." 



Mr. Brodie was elected President of the Warwickshire Natural 

 History & Archaeological Society in 1894 and of the Pield Club 

 in 1888. His numerous gifts to the Palaeontological Collection 

 of the Warwickshire Natural History Society embrace many very 

 rare and fine fossils, amounting to several hundred specimens. 



Mr. Brodie was much beloved, not only in the county in which 

 he resided, but by all who had in any way the pleasure of his 

 acquaintance, and his funeral was attended by many of those who 

 had been his fellow-workers in Science. One, writing to me after 

 his death, said, ' Dear old man ! He loved God's world, children, 

 animals, nature ! ' I am indebted for the substance of this biography 

 to Mr. S. S. Stanley, Sec. Warwickshire Nat. Hist. Soc, and to 

 Mr. H. B. Woodward's memoir, Geol. Mag. 1897, pp. 481-485. 



Sir James Eamsat Gibson-Maitland, Bart., F.L.S., P.Z.S., one of 



the most distinguished pisciculturists of the day, was elected a 

 Pellow of this Society in 1890. He was born on March 29th, 

 1848, and was the son of Sir Alexander Eamsay Gibson-Maitland 

 by a daughter of James Hunt, of Pittencrieff. He was educated 

 at St. Andrew's University and at Sandhurst. In 1867 he received 

 a commission in the 4th Dragoon Guards, but remained for only 

 about a year in the Army. Subsequently he was for some time a 

 Captain in the Highland Borderers Militia. In 1869 he married 

 Frances Lucy Powke, a daughter of Sir Thomas Woollaston White, 

 Bart., of Wallingwells, Notts. She took much interest in natural 

 science, and her husband acknowledged, in the preface to his 'History 

 of Howietoun,' that his success in fish-culture was largely due to 

 her energy. Pish-culture appears to have attracted Sir J. Maitland's 

 attention in 1873. 'Some words of Prank Buckland,' he says, 

 'induced me to try to hatch out trout-eggs. I got a copy of 

 Francis Francis's " Fish-culture," and had a box made similar to the 



