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MEMORIAL OF AMOS P. BROWN ^ 

 BY R. A. F. PENROSE, JR. 



Dr. Amos Peaslee Brown/ Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the 

 University of Pennsylvania, died on October 9, 1917, in his fiftj -third 

 year. He had not been in robust health for many years, and in spite of 

 every effort of his physicians and his family his death w^as the sad culmi- 

 nation of his depleted condition. 



Doctor Brown was descended from Henry Brown, who came to America 

 from England in 1639 and settled in Massachusetts, where he was among 

 the founders of the town of Salisbury. In the early part of the nineteenth 

 century part of the descendants of Henry Brown went to Philadelphia 

 and part to Maryland. Dr. Thomas Stewardson, of Philadelphia, a noted 

 physician and botanist in the early part of the last century, was the 

 brother of Doctor Brown's maternal grandmother. 



Doctor Brow^n Avas the son of Amos P. Brown and Frances Brown and 

 was born in Philadelphia on December 3, 1864. He was one of a family 

 of seven brothers and two sisters, the rest of whom survive him. He 

 received his early education at the Germantown Academy, under Dr. 

 William Kershaw, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1882, 

 where he received the degree of B. S. in 1886 and of M. E. in 1887. In 

 1893 he received from the University of Pennsylvania the degree of Ph. D. 



Doctor Brown joined the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, under 

 Prof. J. P. Lesley, in 1887, and remained on it until 1889, during which 

 period he did important scientific work. At first he was associated with 

 Mr. Charles A. Ashburner in the western part of the State, but during 

 most of his time on the Survey he was associated with Mr. Benjanlin 

 Smith Lyman. The results of Doctor Brown's work with Mr. Lyrnan 

 are embodied in the publication of the latter, entitled "Eeport on the 

 New Eed of Bucks and Montgomery Counties," published in the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Pennsylvania, Final Report, Volume III, Part II, 1895. 

 Doctor Brown's part of this work consisted especially of a study of jthe 

 igneous rocks of the district. : 



In 1889 Doctor Brown was appointed Instructor of Mining and Mejtal- 

 lurgy at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1892 Professor of Gjbol- 

 ogy and Mineralogy in the Auxiliary Department of Medicine at Jthe 



1 Presented before the Society December 27, 1917. '^ 

 Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society .January 8. 1018. 



2 The thanks of the writer for much information about Doctor Brown are due to his 

 brother, Mr. Herbert Brown, and to Dr. Witmer Stone, Dr. E. T. Wherry, Dr. F. Ehren- 

 feld, Mr. Benjamin Smith Lyman, and others. 



II— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 29, 1917 



