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WILLIAM BROWN
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WILLIAM BROWN
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1975.tb01631.x
Subject(s) - citation , annals , biology , library science , classics , computer science , history
Mr "William Beown, whose death took place at his residence, 25 Dublin Street, on the 20th ultimo, was born on the 31st of Mnv 1796 having reached the advanced age of ninety-one. He was the only son of William Brown, M.D., F.RC.S.E., who, before settling as a practitioner in Edinburgh, served first in our Eoyal Navy and afterwards under the Eussian Government as a physician at Cronstadt and in Siberia. He came to Edinburgh in 1793, and continued to reside there, in the enjoyment of a large practice, till he died in 1818. He was an earnest Christian, an elder in the Tolbooth Parish Church, and it is said of him that " he did not shrink from speaking to his patients about the truths which directed and comforted his own soul. Mr Brown (the subject of our sketch) studied at the Edinburgh University. From a Christian point of view, college life then was very different from what it is now. In a lecture delivered to