BROWN, RAWDON LUBBOCK. _b._ 1803; lived at Venice 1833 to death;
commissioned by Lord Palmerston to calendar Venetian state papers
treating of English history 1862 for which purpose he examined
twelve million packets of documents in North Italy; author of
_Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English
affairs existing in the archives and collections of Venice and of
other libraries of Northern Italy 8 vols._ 1864–84. _d._ Casa
della Vida, Venice 25 Aug. 1883. _Times 29 Aug., 8 Sep. and 13
Sep. 1883_; _Athenæum 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 307.
BROWN, ROBERT (_2 son of Rev. James Brown, Episcopalian minister of
Montrose_). _b._ Montrose 21 Dec. 1773; ed. at Marischal coll.
Aberdeen and Univ. of Edin.; naturalist to H.M.S. Investigator
under Flinders 1801–5 when he collected nearly 4000 species of
dried plants; librarian to Linnæan Society 1805–20; custodian of
library and collections of Sir Joseph Banks 1810–20; keeper of
Banksian botanical collection at British Museum 1827 to death;
F.R.S. 12 Dec. 1811, Copley medallist 1839; F.L.S. 1822, pres.
1849 to May 1853; one of the 8 foreign associates of French
Academy of Sciences 1833; an honorary member of every academy in
Europe; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 Sep. 1843; author
of _Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen_ 1810;
_Vermischte botanische Schriften_, _ed. by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck
5 vols._ 1825–34. _d._ 17 Dean st. Soho, London 10 June 1858.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 527–32 (1858); _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._
(1859) 25–30; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxix_, 115–19 (1859);
_I.L.N. xxxiii_, 29 (1858), _portrait_.
BROWN, REV. ROBERT CHRISTOPHER LUNDIN (_son of Rev. Robert Brown,
minister of Largo_). ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1854; missionary
in British Columbia 1860–5; V. of Lineal Salop 1869–74; P.C. of
Rhodes near Manchester 1874–5; author of _British Columbia_ 1863;
_The dead in Christ_ 1868; _Klatsassan_ 1873; _The life of Peace_