THE HANCOCK MUSEUM AND ITS HISTORY XIU 



of the men whose gifts and labours have done most to shed 

 lustre upon the past history of the Newcastle Natural History 



Albany Hancock. 



Society. But they were by no means isolated workers. 

 Associated with them was a distinguished group of local 

 naturalists, of whom two, Prof. G. S. Brady, late of Armstrong 

 College, and Canon Norman, are happily still spared to carry 

 on the great traditions of the past. H. Bowman Brady, brother 

 of the professor, and one of the first authorities on the fora- 

 minifera, died eighteen years ago, when a career of distinction 

 both in business and science seemed open before him. There 

 were a number of others among the earlier members of the 

 Society whose names are honourably remembered in the 

 annals of local natural history; but space cannot be found 

 here to refer to them. 



HI.— JOHN HANCOCK AND THE NEW MUSEUM 



In the preceding article the history of the Museum was 

 followed in outline from its origin in the eighteenth century 

 down to about twenty-five years ago. The early eighties, the 

 point thus reached, marked a most important epoch for the 

 museum. It was then that the decision was finally taken to 



