PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Delaware County Institute of Science 



Vol. II, No. 2 



January. 1907 



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JACOB B. BROWN. 



1831 — 1906. 



It is with the deepest regret that the Institute records the 

 death, on December 6th, 1906, of Jacob B. Brown, Member 

 and Curator. 



Mr. Brown became a member of the Institute in 1894 and 

 always took a most active interest in its meetings and welfare. 

 He read many papers before the Institute on various scientific 

 and literary topics. A number of these have been published 

 in The Proceedings, and it is hoped that the Institute will 

 have the privilege of publishing others. 



Mr. Brown was especially interested in astronomy, and his 

 papers on this subject are of the highest type. In this connec- 

 tion, a few years ago he presented to the Institute a sun dial 

 and with painstaking effort attended personally to the mount- 

 ing and orientation of the apparatus, which occupies a perma- 

 nent position upon the south wall of the building. 



Although well known and honored by those with whom he 

 came in contact, even Mr. Brown's most intimate. friends knew 

 little of his life history, as he seldom spoke of the past other 

 than in an impersonal manner. What follows, therefore, will 

 be most welcome. 



Jacob Brown Brown was born December loth, 1831, in 

 Newport, R. I., where his father, Major Thompson S. Brown, 

 U. S. A., was then stationed at P'ort Adams. The family, 





