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Edwin Brown (died September 1 1876 Tenby) was an English naturalist and entomologist. Edwin Brown was manager of the Burton, Uttoxeter and Ashbourne Union Bank in Burton on Trent. He had a private museum of geological,zoological and botanical specimens and a library of taxonomic works. 〔(Bates to Charles Darwin letter ) 〕 〔Anon Obit. ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' 13 (1876–7):116 (online ) 〕 Brown was a Member of the Entomological Society of London from 1849. He specialised in Carabidae and Cicindelidae.〔Adrian Brown Memorial Lecture. ''Journal of the Institute of Brewing'' Volume 27, Issue 5 doi= 10.1002/j.2050-0416.1921.tb02482.x 〕 Parts of his collection were purchased by Oxford University Museum of Natural History when it was sold at auction in March 1877.The purchase included insects collected by Alfred Russel Wallace. Edwin Brown was Henry Walter Bates's first naturalist friend.〔Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith,1994 ''A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882'' Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521434232 〕 ==Works== Partial list *Contributions to Mosley, O. ''Natural History of Tutbury''(1863) *On the Australian species of Tetracha. ''Transactions of The Royal Entomological Society of London'' 17: 351-353 (1869) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Brown (naturalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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