Offices and honours Founder member of the Zoological Society; Founder member of the Chemical Society; Corresponding member of the Societas Naturae Scrutatorum at Basel; Member of the American Philosophical Society; Member of the London Electrical Society Member of the British Meteorological Society, (1850); Fellow of the Royal Society, (1854); The lunar crater Brayley is named for him; Ferdinand von Mueller named the Australian rainforest tree, Flindersia brayleyana in his honour. References Bibliography The 1850 and 1851 Membership Lists of the British Meteorological Society Hays, J. N. (2004) "Brayley, Edward William (1801/2–1870)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 8 August 2007 (subscription required) 1801 births 1870 deaths English geographers English non-fiction writers Fellows of the Royal Society English librarians Writers from London Academics of Birkbeck, University of London English male non-fiction writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers 19th-century English male writers 19th-century geographers