GEORGE STEWARDSON BRADY, 1832—1921. 
G. S. Brapy, M.D., M.R.C.S., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., Professor of 
Natural History, Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Consulting 
Physician to the Sunderland Infirmary, was born, he told me, April 18th, 
1832. Presumably also on his authority we learn that the event occurred 
at Gateshead, and that he was the eldest son of Henry Brady, surgeon. 
As his childish education began at the Friends’ School, Ackworth, it is not 
improbable that he owed the name Stewardson to his parents’ acquaintance 
with the Quaker family which gave the popular portrait-painter of that name 
to the early part of the nineteenth century. Certainly the whole tenor of 
Brady’s life seems to have been in tune with the principles of that peace- 
loving community, and even on the scientific side there are many indications 
that friendship was his delight. It has been already explained in ‘ Nature’ 
(January 5th, 1922), among other details, that he became a member of the 
Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club in 1849. At that early period it is said that 
his interest was “with alge and other plant groups.” Much later on he 
referred to these studies when pointing out in correspondence (November, 
1902), that the organisms which I had described as gland-cells in the amphipod 
genus Urothe, were, in fact, “ parasites, probably alge.” 
With the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of which the Tyneside Field Club was a branch, Brady 
had a long and distinguished connexion, both as a frequent contributor to its 
‘Transactions, and twice President of the Field Club. The respect felt for him 
by fellow-workers in systematic zoology may be partially traced by the use of 
his name in classification. Thus among Copepoda Axel, Boeck names a genus 
Bradya in 1872, Thomas Scott supplies Neobradya in 1892, Giesbrecht 
Bradypontius in 1895, and Bradyidius in 1897, Vanhoffen Bradyanus in the 
same year, and G. O. Sars Pseudobradya in 1904. Sars had named a genus 
Bradycinetuvs in 1865. But this suggests a curious need for caution in that 
many generic names owe the commencing syllables Brady-, not to eminent 
zoologists, but to the Greek @padv, indicating some organic slowness, and 
very inappropriate to the scientific activities of George Brady and his 
brother Henry. For the use of the former’s name in identifying species, his 
friend A. M. Norman led the way with the Ostracode Cythere Bradvi in 1864. 
But this, for technical reasons, gave way to another species, the Marquis de 
Folin’s Cythere Bradiw in 1869. Norman, in 1878, named a Copepod 
Cervima Brady, Sars in 1884 another of that group Undinopsis Bradyi, and 
Thomas Scott a third in 1892 as Tetragoniceps Bradyi, but this, later on, he 
found reason to place in a new genus with the long-flowing name of 
Phyllopodopsyllus, strictly meaning “a leaf-footed flea,’ the species being 
notable for “ the large size and leaf-like form of the fifth pair of thoracic feet 
of the female.” Ina footnote to Tetragoniceps Bradyi, Dr. Thomas Scott 
