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\Villia:si Lindsay Broavn was born in Kiikeudbriglit in the South 

 of Scotland on 14th October, 184-2, and died on 26th Jidy, 1900. 

 He \ras educated at the Academy there, and afterwards devoted 

 some years to the banking profession, first in Scotland and after- 

 wards in London, but he always felt the duties irksome and soon 

 abandoned them, having private means. He had a very decided 

 taste for natural science and art, and was very fond of travelling 

 so as to extend his knowledge of men and countries ; visiting in 

 succe;sion the United States, Canada, the Holy Land, Egypt, the 

 West Indies, India, and most of the countries in Europe. His 

 last trip was in the ' Ophir ' to Spitsbergen, u hence he brought 

 many very interesting photographs and a collection of plants and 

 lichens. 



He was a good botanist and geologist, and has left a very fine 

 collection of plants, flowers, and lichens, and all the materials for an 

 interesting book, but he never had time to publish anything. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 5th IS'ovember, 

 1S91, and was constant in his attendance at the meetings of the 

 Society. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society, the Geo- 

 logical Association, and the Victoria Institute. To sum up, he was 

 a man of scientific tastes who had travelled long and widely and had 

 seen with a seeing-eye many men and many countries ; he was a 

 charming companion, a faithful friend, and an upright man. [T. B.] 



Philip Crowley, born of a Quaker family at Alton, Hants, in 1837, 

 died a widower at his residence Waddon House, Croydon, on 

 20th Dec, 1900, in his G4th year. Becoming in early life a partner 

 in the well-known brewing establishments at Alton and Croydon, 

 he amassed considerable wealth, and expended it with no light hand 

 in the gratification of his enthusiasm for Xatural History. He 

 published but little, and that on entomological subjects ; but as a 

 collector and generous donor he has done immense work, initiating, 

 by the encouragement he gave to others, important investigations 

 and advancements. His collection of exotic butterflies is world- 

 famed, and of birds' eggs he possessed a magnificent series ; while in 

 horticulture he not only lived among the best and choicest of 

 nature's tioral products, but took a leading part in the organization 

 of practical pursuits. 



At the period of his death he was Treasurer of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, in the afi:airs of which he had long taken a leading 

 part, and he was in his second year as Master of the Gardeners' 

 Company. He was an ideal example of the busy man, engrossed 

 in important pursuits, who can always find time for numerous 

 extraneous occupations, and who, by his enthusiasm and lavish 

 expenditure upon his hobby, is apt to be a very godsend to the 

 earnest worker, too often less happily placed. 



He was a Fellow of the Zoological and Entomological Societies, 

 and an active member of the Croydon ilicroscopical Club. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Societv on 1.5th November, 1883. 



