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and student of natural history, and his conchological cabinet 
is said to have been unrivalled. He was a Fellow of the 
Linnean, Geological, Zoological, and Royal Societies. In 
1826 he aided in the formation of the Zoological Society, and 
contributed papers (chiefly on conchology) to its Transactions 
and Proceedings , and also wrote a Guide to its Gardens in 
connection with N. A. Vigors (1829). He was responsible for 
practically the whole of the zoological articles in the Penny 
Cyclopaedia , and contributed an historical introduction to 
Owen’s monograph on the Dodo. His Leaves from the Note- 
book of a Naturalist (1852) comprises notes at the “ Zoo ” and 
on foreign birds. He died in Gray’s Inn, February 27, 1859. 
*1817. Zoological | Recreations, f by W. J. Broderip, Esq., E.R.S. | 
etc., etc. | [Quot. 4 lines.] | London : [etc. 2 lines.] | 1847. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. viii + 1 1. contents + pp. 380. 
Pt. I., pp. 1-174, deals with birds. 
Idem. 2nd edit., with additions, London : 1849. [Dedication 
dated May 1847.] 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 384. 
Idem. New edit., with additions, 1849. Not differing, but 
Dedication is undated. 
Contents include : On Singing Birds, resident and migratory ; 
The Cuckoo, Owls, Wild Swans, etc. 
Idem. 3rd edit., revised and enlarged. London & Glasgow : 
1858. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 382, engr. front, and 
title. 
The above work (together with his Leaves) chiefly comprised 
his collected contributions to the New Monthly Magazine and 
Fraser's Magazine. 
Brodrick (William), 1814-88 
William Brodrick was born in London, where his father 
was a barrister of some eminence, in 1814, and was educated 
at Harrow and University College, Oxford. He was wont 
to say, a propos of his lifelong love for natural history, that 
“ all he learned at Harrow was how to catch birds.” Yet 
he took his degree at Oxford and studied medicine at Edin- 
burgh, although he never elected to practise. After his 
marriage he settled at Belford in Northumberland, where he 
