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importance was that which he carried out in partnership with Canon Norman 
on “The Marine and Freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of 
North-Western Europe,” the first part appearing in 1889, the second in 1896. 
In this he gives a signal example of his scientific ingenuity which is worthy 
of additional record. He points out (p. 622) that “In consequence of the 
small size of Ostracoda it is extremely difficulty to procure spirit-preserved 
specimens from the deep sea, and although the Myodocopa, being much larger 
than the Podocopa, would be detected by the experienced eye of a Carcino- 
logist who had studied them, yet the Zoologists usually attached to Govern- 
ment Expeditions cannot be expected thus to notice them. Hence it is that 
ina large number of cases the only examples which have come into our 
hands are such as have been picked out of dried material. It struck us that, 
notwitstanding their dried condition, it might yet be possible by maceration 
to get some idea of the withered inmates of the shells. We therefore made 
experiments, and succeeded in restoring the animals beyond our most ardent 
expectations. All the portions of the animals figured [in several genera and 
species mentioned] have been taken from dissections of animals which have 
been preserved in a dried state for very many, in one case, as long as twenty- 
three years, and we are satified that these drawings will be found to be 
almost as exact, so far as they go, as those taken from spirit-preserved 
examples.” : 
In 1884, when the editing of the “ Challenger” Reports had passed into the 
vigorous hands of John Murray, the eighth volume of Zoology appeared, having 
as its opening treatise Brady’s Report on the Copepoda illustrated by fifty-five 
carefully drawn plates. Though the collection thus laboriously discussed 
presented many points of interest, Brady was forced to admit that it was far 
from representative of what the ocean’s resources were likely to contain, and 
that the last word had not been said as to methods of preserving these 
organisms. In his Introduction he makes some remarks which bear on a 
subject previously mentioned :—*“ The appearance of these minute creatures at 
the surface depends upon conditions, the nature of which we scarcely at all 
understand. Night, on the whole, seems to be more favourable than daytime, 
but even during the day they sometimes appear in numbers so vast as to 
colour the sea in wide bands for distances of many miles. This appearance 
has been noticed, perhaps, most frequently in the tropics; but even in the 
Arctic seas some species, especially Calanus (Cetochilus) finmarchicus, are at 
times so abundant as to constitute, it is said, a most important item in the 
food of the whale. So far, indeed, as number and size of individuals are 
concerned, it would appear that the cold water of the Arctic and Antarctic 
seas are even more favourable to the growth of Copepoda than the warmer 
seas of the Tropics.” 
With his frequent and arduous contributions to scientific literature Brady 
combined, from 1857 till about 1890, the conscientious exercise of an exacting 
profession, practising as a doctor in Sunderland, “and after that gave up his 
time to his professorship at the Armstrong College, until he resigned in 1906 
