XXX Proceedings of Boycd Society of Edinburgh. 
1888 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Univer- 
sity of Edinburgh. In 1890 he was called to the Moderator’s Chair 
of the Free Church General Assembly, which he occupied with 
dignity, and with much satisfaction to the Church. Dr Brown 
died on the 4th of April 1893. Two sons survive him — J. Graham 
Brown, Esq., M.D., and J. Wood Brown, M.A., minister of the 
Free Church, Gordon, Berwickshire. His brother, Sir John 
Campbell Brown, K.C.B., a highly distinguished member of the 
Indian Medical Service, predeceased him. 
Let this bald and rapid enumeration of the leading family and 
public steps in Dr Brown’s life serve as introductory to what, in 
the obituary notice for the Proceedings of the Society, is of chief 
interest. I refer, mainly, to the records of the work he has done 
as one of its Fellows. This work may be looked at under three 
divisions Geology, Botany, and Literature. 
I. Geology . — In comparatively few districts of lowland Scotland 
could a youth with an inborn bent towards natural science have 
found fuller scope for observation and research than in that part of 
Berwickshire in which Brown was born, and in which he spent his 
youth. The environments do not make the man, or determine his 
tastes, but much of a life depends on correspondence between 
natural bent and surroundings. The latter is ever at hand to 
develop, to cherish, and to strengthen, without perfectly satisfying, 
the former, and thus to allure to ever higher effort. The geological 
and botanical features of Langton parish, and other neighbouring 
parishes, are full of interest. Within little more than a gunshot 
from the manse, the Lower Carboniferous strata crop out in the 
Langton Burn course, with their embedded ichthyolites and remains 
of plants. In the same burn course are strata which seem to mark 
the meeting-place of the Carboniferous and the Old Bed Sandstone, 
while, in near localities, are shales and clays yielding remains of 
other plants, mollusca, and fishes. And by a walk of a few miles 
he could reach what Hugh Miller describes as “ The deep belt of 
Bed Sandstone which leans to the south (in the valley of the 
Whiteadder) against the graywacke of the Lammermoors.” 
While avoiding details, it seems to me that a brief statement of 
the character and scope of his chief contributions to geology appro- 
priately fits into this sketch of his life and work. 
