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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 Bradyi. 



In the previous year the Eay 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 aesthetic 

 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 Kobertson, amongst the Scilly Islands, on the 

 Firth of Clyde, on the sheltered bays of Boundstone 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 Bobertson 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 Bobertson, one with Norman, and one 

 with Crosskey and Bobertson together. When the first volume of the 

 "Challenger" Beports on Zoology was published in 1880 under the editorship 

 of Sir C. Wy ville-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 iUustrated 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 



