Edwin Brown
1818/19–76
Bank manager and naturalist. Employee of the Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, 1834; manager, 1865. Member of the Entomological Society of London, 1849; fellow of the Geological Society of London and the Royal Geographical Society; member of the Botanical Society of London. A life-long friend and patron of Henry Walter Bates; Bates’s letters to him from the Amazon were published in the Zoologist, 1849–58.
Sources
Banking almanac 1865
Bates 1892, p. 20
R. Desmond 1994
Entomologist 9 (1876): 240
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 13 (1876–7): 116–7, 257–8.
Bibliography
Banking almanac: The banking almanac, directory, yearbook and diary. London: Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919.
Bates, Henry Walter. 1892. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. With a memoir of the author by Edward Clodd. Reprint of the first edition. London: John Murray.
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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