128 
SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 
chemist. Into that movement Brady threw himself with great vigour, 
especially in his earlier years. He was for many years on the Council 
of the Pharmaceutical Society, and the progress of that body was greatly 
helped by his wide knowledge of science and of scientific men and things, 
as well as by his calm and unprejudiced judgment. 
His more direct contributions to science were in form of researches 
in natural history, more especially on the Foraminifera. His first publi- 
cation seems to have been a contribution, in 1863, to the British Associa- 
tion as a report on the dredging of the Northumberland coast and 
Dogger Bank ; his last was a paper which appeared in the October number 
of our Journal. Between these two he published a large number of re- 
searches, including a monograph on Carboniferous and Permian Forami- 
nifera, an exhaustive report on the Foraminifera of the ‘ Challenger ’ ex- 
pedition, as well as monographs on ParJceria, Loftusia , and Polymorpliina , 
in which he was joint author. 
By these works he not only established a position, both in this 
country and abroad, as one of the highest authorities on the subject, but, 
what is of more importance, largely advanced our knowledge. Every one 
of his papers is characterized by the most conscientious accuracy and 
justice ; and though his attention was largely directed to classification, 
and to the morphological points therein involved, his mind, as several of 
his papers indicate, was also occupied with the wider problems of mor- 
phological and biological interest which the study of these lowly forms 
suggests. I have myself often profited by his wide knowledge and power 
of accurate observation in discussing with him questions of this kind 
arising out of his studies, and learning from him views and opinions 
which, to his critical mind, were not as yet ripe enough for publication. 
The leisure of the last fifteen years gave him opportunity for travel, 
and he visited various parts of the world, utilizing many of his journeys 
— notably one to the Pacific Ocean — in the collection and study of Fora- 
minifera. Some of these travels were undertaken on the score of health, 
to avoid the evils of an English winter, for he was during many years 
subject to chronic pulmonary mischief. 
During his last journey for this purpose — one to the Nile in the 
winter of 1889-90 — he met with difficulties, and failed to receive the 
benefit from the change which he had secured on former occasions. During 
the last two or three years, and especially during the last year, his condi- 
tion gave increasing anxiety to his friends ; the malady against which he 
had so long struggled seemed to be beating him at last ; and we heard 
with sorrow rather than with surprise that the fierceness of the recent cold 
had conquered him. Settled for the winter at Bournemouth, and full of 
cheerful hopes for the coming summer, he succumbed to a sudden attack 
of inflammation of the lungs, and died on January 10th, 1891. 
Science has lost a steady and fruitful worker, and many men of 
science have lost a friend and a helpmate whose place they feel no one 
else can fill. His wide knowledge of many branches of scientific inquiry, 
and his large acquaintance with scientific men, made the hours spent with 
him always profitable ; his sympathy with art and literature, and that 
special knowledge of men and things which belongs only to the travelled 
man, made him welcome where science was unknown ; while the brave 
patience with which he bore the many troubles of enfeebled health, his 
