P.B. Brodie
| Revd. P.B. Brodie MA, FLS, FGS | |||||||||||
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| Residence | Rowington Rectory, near Warwick | ||||||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||||||
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As our associate, the Rev. P. B. Brodie, is leaving this district, I have much pleasure in calling the attention of the Members of the Cotteswold Club to the interesting discoveries of fossil insects from the Lias, which he has principally made within the limits of our more immediate operations, namely in the county of Gloucester ; and this I think right to do now with the more immediate object of settling a question of nomenclatiu'e, and in order that our 'Proceedings ' may perpetuate his name as attached to one of the most beautiful and perfect specimens he has yet discovered, to whom the following remarks will show that it was originally dedicated. In order to render this the more clear, it will be necessary to state that while Mr. Brodie was prosecuting his inquiries in the Lower Lias, in a band of which, termed by him the ' Insect Limestone,' he succeeded in exhuming remains of almost every class of Insecta, I had the pleasui'e of finding among others a fine wing of Libellula in a thin band of limestone in the Upper Lias : this discovery was announced to the Geological Society in a short paper " On the occurrence of Remains of Insects in the Upper Lias of the county of Gloucester ;" and in vol. iv. part 1. page 311 of the ' Proceedings ' of
the Geological Society will be found the following remarks: —
" The remains of insects comprise one species of Libellula, which, from the reticulations of the fine wing, seems to belong to the genus jEshna, and has been named by Mr. Buckman jEshna Brodiei in honour of Mr. Brodie."