WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William John Broderip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1789 November 21, Saturday: William John Broderip was born in Princes-street, Bristol, England, eldest son of William Broderip, a surgeon. After being educated at Bristol Grammar School by the Reverend Samuel Seyer (himself a published author), he would matriculate at Oriel College, Oxford. There he would attend the anatomical lectures of Sir Christopher Pegge and the chemical and mineralogical lectures of Dr. John Kidd. I zingari in fiera, a dramma per musica by Giovanni Paisiello to words of Palomba, was performed for the initial time, in the Teatro Fondo, Naples. The former English colony of North Carolina signed aboard the ship of state “United States of America”: READ THE FULL TEXT RATIFICATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA December 8, 1787 Delaware YES= 30 NO= 0 December 12, 1787 Pennsylvania YES= 46 NO= 23 December 18, 1787 New Jersey YES= 38 NO= 0 January 2, 1788 Georgia YES= 26 NO= 0 January 8, 1788 Connecticut YES=128 NO= 40 February 6, 1788 Massachusetts YES=187 NO=168 April 28, 1788 Maryland YES= 63 NO= 11 May 23, 1788 South Carolina YES=149 NO= 73 June 21, 1788 New Hampshire YES= 57 NO= 47 June 25, 1788 Virginia YES= 89 NO= 79 July 26, 1788 New York YES= 30 NO= 27 HTTP://WWW.YALE.EDU/LAWWEB/AVALON/CONST/RATNC.HTM JOINING LATER IN ADHERENCE TO THE US CONSTITUTION: 12 November 21, 1789 North Carolina YES=194 NO= 77 HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP (The state motto would be Esse quam videri, “to be rather than to seem.”) NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT William John Broderip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1812 May 16, Saturday: William John Broderip graduated from Oriel College of Oxford University. He would enter the Inner Temple, and study in the chambers of Godfrey Sykes alongside Sir John Patteson and Sir John Taylor Coleridge. ORIEL COLLEGE The Emperor and Empress of France arrived in Dresden accompanied by a torchlight parade. Also in attendance were the various German kings, of Saxony, Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg, and Westphalia. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 7th day 16th 5 M 1812// A Season of precious favor this morng finished a letter to James D Ladd of Grancille Mill Virginia this Afternoon — ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1817 May 12, Monday: William John Broderip joined the bar at Lincoln’s Inn. His practice would be on the western circuit. Soon he and Peregrine Bingham would begin reporting in the court of common pleas. (These reports would appear in three volumes from 1820 to 1822.) Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 2nd day 12 of 5 M / Mother Rodman is Better today her disorder assumes a favorable appearance & we hope her confinement will not be very long. - Went this evening with my H to see her. - her throat has been considerable sore & some fever hanging about her system. — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William John Broderip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1822 William John Broderip accepted from Lord Sidmouth the appointment of magistrate at the Thames police court. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William John Broderip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1824 William John Broderip edited the 4th edition of R. CALLIS UPON THE STATUTE OF SEWERS. He was elected a member of the Linnean Society, presumably because of his work on conches. WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF William John Broderip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1825 William John Broderip was elected a member of the Geological Society (he would for some time be a secretary of this society, alongside Roderick Murchison). In October the Reverend Edward Hitchcock left off being Conway’s Congregationalist minister to become Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at Amherst College. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT William John Broderip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1826 William John Broderip and Sir Stamford Raffles aided in the formation of the Zoological Society, of which they were among the original fellows. (His writings in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Zoological Society are primarily to be found under the rubric “malacology.”) DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. William John Broderip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1828 February 14, Thursday: Edmond François Valentin About was born at Dieuze, in the Lorraine region of France. William John Broderip was elected a member of the Royal Society. The initial of several customs treaties in the German Confederation was signed between Prussia and Hesse- Darmstadt, providing a basis for greater German unity. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 5th day 14th of 2 M 1828 / Meeting nearly silent & I apprehend had better been entirely so. — it however was generally a good Meeting to me RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William John Broderip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1829 Nicholas A. Vigors’s and W.J. Broderip’s GUIDE TO THE GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP 1830 William John Broderip’s “Account of the Manners of a Tame Beaver” appeared in the THE GARDENS AND MENAGERIE OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY DELINEATED: PUBLISHED, WITH THE SANCTION OF THE COUNCIL, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SECRETARY AND VICE-SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY (Volume I, page 167). The animal arrived in this country in the winter of 1825, very young, being small and woolly, and without the covering of long hair which marks the adult Beaver. It was the sole survivor of five or six which were shipped at the same time, and it was in a very pitiable condition. Good treatment quickly restored it to health, and kindness soon made it familiar. When called by its name “Binny,” it generally answered with a little cry, and came to its owner. The hearth-rug was its favourite haunt, and thereon it would lie stretched out, sometimes on its back, sometimes on its side, and sometimes flat on its belly, but always near its master. The building instinct showed itself immediately it was let out of its cage and materials were placed in its way; and this before it had been a week in its new quarters., Its strength, even before it was half grown, was great. It would drag along a large sweeping-brush, or a warming- pan, grasping the handle with its teeth so that the load came over its shoulder, and advancing in an oblique direction till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid cross-wise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other ends projecting out into the room. The area formed by the crossed brushes and the wall, he would fill up with hand brushes, rush baskets, books, boots, sticks, cloths, dried turf, or any thing portable. As the work grew high, he supported himself on his tail which propped him up admirably, and he would often, after laying on one of his building materials, sit up over against it, appearing to consider his work, or, as the country people say, “judge it.” This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material “judged,” and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room, (for he generally chose the same place), he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers which stood, at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him; using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very even, and filling up the interstices with bits of coal, hay, cloth, or any thing he could pick up. This last place he seemed to appropriate for his dwelling: the former work seemed to be intended for a dam. When he had walled up the space between the feet of the chest of drawers, he proceeded to carry in sticks, cloths, hay, cotton, and to make a nest; and when he had done he would sit up under the drawers, HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP WILLIAM JOHN BRODERIP and comb himself with the nails of his hind feet. In this operation, that which appeared at first to be a mal-formation was shown to be a beautiful adaptation to the necessities of the animal. The huge webbed hind feet of the Beaver turn in so as to give the appearance of deformity; but if the toes were straight, instead of being incurved, the animal could not use them for the purpose of keeping its fur in order, and cleansing it from dirt and moisture.