John Croumbie Brown
1808–95
Scottish clergyman and botanist. LL.D., University of Aberdeen, 1858. Served the London Missionary Society in St Petersburg, Russia, and then in Cape Town, 1844–8. Minister to a United Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen, 1849. Lecturer in botany, Joint Medical School, Aberdeen, 1853. Colonial botanist, 1863–6, attending particularly to agricultural problems; also chair of botany at the South Africa College, Cape Town. Returned to his Aberdeen ministry in 1866. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1867.
Source
A. C. Brown 1977, p. 465, R. Desmond 1994, Gunn and Codd 1981.
Bibliography
Brown, Alesander Claude. 1977. The amateur scientist. In A history of scientific endeavour in South Africa, edited by A. C. Brown. Cape Town: Royal Society of South Africa and Rustica Press.
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.
