Mr. H. A. Bryden, who died in September, 1937, at the age of eighty- three, was distinguished as an interna- tional athlete, sportsman, traveller and naturalist, and as the author of many books on these subjects. He came to the Institution in 1918 and did very successful work for it as an organ- izing secretary, first in the south-west of England and then in the south-east.

He retired in 1925 at the age of seventy- one..