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remarks, “the name is given in compliment to Prof. G. S. Brady, who 
instituted the genus, and to whose untiring and disinterested kindness the 
author of these notes owes much of his success in the study of the Entomo- 
straca.” In 1879 Dr. Norman again pays his friend the compliment of using 
his name for a species, this time in the eccentric group of the Sympoda, to 
which he adds the description of Diastylis Brady. 
In the previous year the Ray Society had published the first volume of 
Brady’s “ Monograph of the free and semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British 
Islands.” As the uninitiated may be excused for wondering why men of 
ability should spend a considerable part of their lives in studying creatures 
so insignificant in size and so generally harmless to mankind, as the Ento- 
mostraca, it may be observed that, as in old Camden’s phrase, “many a 
little makes a mickle,” and as little grains of sand may make a mountain, 
so the stupendous multitudes in which some of the entomostracan species 
occur make them indirectly yet ultimately important contributors to human 
food and comfort. But, apart from economic values, the true lover of nature 
finds in this seemingly trivial study more than one source of esthetic 
fascination. In the introduction to Brady’s last-mentioned work he says :— 
“Some of the pleasantest and most profitable hours which I have ever 
spent have been when, after a day’s dredging, I have set out at sunset on 
a quiet boating excursion for the purpose of capturing such prey as could 
be got in the surface net. Many hours of this kind, spent in the company 
of my old friend Mr. David Robertson, amongst the Scilly Islands, on the 
Firth of Clyde, on the sheltered bays of Roundstone and Westport, or on 
the stormier coasts of Northumbria, will long live in my memory, not only 
by their results in the acquisition of valuable specimens, but as times of 
unalloyed delight in the contemplation of nature under a different guise from 
that in which we usually see her.” The David Robertson to whom he here 
alludes, otherwise known as “the Naturalist of Cumbrae” (see his ‘ Life by 
his Friend,’ 1891), began a notable career as a penniless herdboy, and ended it 
an Hon. LL.D. of Glasgow University. 
In the bibliography to his luminous work on the Ostracoda of the Bay 
of Naples and the adjacent seas (1894), G. W. Miiller enumerates twenty- 
one contributions by Brady to this branch of Carcinology, together with 
seven others in which his was the leading name in a collaboration. Five 
of these were undertaken with David Robertson, one with Norman, and one 
with Crosskey and Robertson together. When the first volume of the 
“Challenger” Reports on Zoology was published in 1880 under the editorship 
of Sir C. Wyville-Thomson, Brady was already a recognised authority on 
the Ostracoda. He was among those specially consulted as to the disposal 
of the vast “ Challenger ” material, and his was the third memoir to appear. It 
was illustrated by forty-four quarto plates. For the comparative fewness of new 
species he explains that the “work of the ‘ Challenger’ gave us no collections 
whatever from between tide marks, nor from the laminarian zone, and these 
two zones usually swarm with microzoic life of all kinds.” A later work of much 
