. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . Plate S Left: Ehrenberg. Centre: Reuss. Right: Karrcr. From the Brady Family Photograph Album Reproduced by kind permission of Ncwcastlc-upon-Tync City Libraries & Arts. letter advising him of tiie latter honour is among some of the uncatalogued Brady papers in the Library of the Royal Society. It is dated 3 March 1S,S8 and signed H. Alleyne Nicholson and reads 'My Dear Brady. 1 write a most hurried note in order to catch the early Sunday mail tomorrow morning for the south, that 1 may have the great pleasure of telling you that the Uni
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . Plate S Left: Ehrenberg. Centre: Reuss. Right: Karrcr. From the Brady Family Photograph Album Reproduced by kind permission of Ncwcastlc-upon-Tync City Libraries & Arts. letter advising him of tiie latter honour is among some of the uncatalogued Brady papers in the Library of the Royal Society. It is dated 3 March 1S,S8 and signed H. Alleyne Nicholson and reads 'My Dear Brady. 1 write a most hurried note in order to catch the early Sunday mail tomorrow morning for the south, that 1 may have the great pleasure of telling you that the University of Aberdeen has to-day, on my proposal, conferred upon you the degree of ;. He was also appointed as Corresponding Member of the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, made an Honorary Member of the Royal Bohemian Museum, Prague and sat on the "Committee of Papers" of the Royal Society. His review of 3 June 1889 of a paper by Bateson 'on some varieties of Cardium ediile' resides among the Referees Reports in the Archives of the Royal Society. Like many other products of his generation, Brady had a great zest for life. Despite (or perhaps because of) his delicate health (he was troubled by pulmonary disease for many years), he was an avid gentleman-traveller. He journeyed twice around the world, visiting such places as Morocco, India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Java, the Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He seems to have been particularly fascinated by the Orient, and hlled the house he had bought for his fathers retirement ('Hillfield' at the top of Windmill Hill in Gateshead) with Japanese paintings, vases and curios. His interest in the local flora and fauna he encountered and the native customs he observed on his travels frequently prompted him to write short pieces. One of his letters to Gunther, headed Hillfield and dated 28 October 1878, reads: During a recent visit to the interior of Morocco, 1 made a good many observ
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