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Dr Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs FRSE FFPSG (1774-1853) was a noted Scottish surgeon with a keen interest in botany, mineralogy and fossil collecting. He is best remembered for his large donation of his entire lifetime collection of fossils etc. to Glasgow University which is generally known as the Lanfine Collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs )〕 ==Life== He is thought to have been born in Glasgow in 1774. His father was a wealthy banker, also called Thomas Brown, and had purchased 117 acres of land in Langside from Robert Crawford of Possilpark. This house was completed in 1780 and Thomas presumably spent his childhood here.〔 He attended Edinburgh University to study botany and was taught by Prof Daniel Rutherford. He inherited the country estates of Lanfine and Waterhaughs in Ayrshire, from his cousin Nicol Brown in 1828. Lanfine House had been built by his uncle, John Brown (1729-1802) in 1772. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lanfine Mansion House Ayrshire )〕 From 1799〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Brown of Lanfine Collection" )〕 he was Deputy Professor of Botany at Glasgow University under Prof James Jeffray. He resigned this post in 1816 and was replaced by Robert Graham, just prior to Botany being given its own chair at the university. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1830. He died on 16 March 1853 in Glasgow. 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「Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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