102 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 
succeeded to his father’s practice, which he continued to within 
a very short time of his death. The subject which first engaged 
his attention in the field of natural history appears to have 
been Conchology, and jointly with his father he made a very 
complete collection of the Land and Fresh-water Shells found in 
Norfolk, a list of which he contributed to our ‘ Transactions ’ in 
January, 1872, but the study of his mature life was the Parasitic 
Hymenoptera, in which branch of entomology he became one of 
the few recognised authorities, and was, perhaps, excelled by none. 
In 1873 he was elected Secretary of the Norwich Microscopical 
Society, a position which he held till the year 1884. In 1875 he 
was President of our Society, and devoted his Presidential Address 
to his favourite subject, “ The Hymenoptera of the neighbourhood 
of Norwich.” In 1883 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 
and in 1886 of the Entomological Society of London, to the 
‘ Transactions ’ of which he contributed a series of papers extending 
over the years 1881 — 86, consisting of “ Additions to Mr. Marshall’s 
Catalogue of the British Ichneumons,” in which he chronicled 
a great number of British species new to science. He also, in 
connection with Mr. E. A. Fitch in the ‘Entomologist’ (to use 
the words of a writer in the ‘ Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine ’), 
gave a “ masterly ” series of “ Introductory papers ” on the 
Ichnomonidsc, which were discontinued, incomplete, in 1885, but 
“ must form the foundation upon which to work the British 
species.” Bridgman’s contributions to our * Transactions’ numbered 
seventeen in all, the most important of which were the list of the 
Land and Freshwater Shells already mentioned; a list of the 
Aculeate-Hymenoptera of Norfolk, in 1876, with continuations in 
1881 and 1889 ; of Sawflies, in 1887 ; and a list of the Ichneumons 
found in Norfolk, in 1893. A full list of Bridgman’s contributions 
to Entomology, for which I am indebted to Mr. Claude Morley, 
will be found appended. In the year 1895, to the great regret 
of his friends and numerous correspondents, chiefly owing to failing 
eyesight, he was compelled to discontinue the study of this branch 
of entomology, and generously presented his whole collection, with 
about forty volumes of books and MSS. (which number was 
increased after bis death by Mrs. Bridgman), to the Norwich 
Castle-Museum. The collection is arranged in two cabinets of 
twelve and fourteen drawers respectively, and with regard to it 
