Edwin Brown (naturalist)

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. ^{[1] [2]} Brown was a Member of the Entomological Society of London from 1849. He specialised in Carabidae and Cicindelidae.^[3]

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.^[4]

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)

References

1. Bates to Charles Darwin letter
2. Anon Obit. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 13 (1876–7):116 online
3. Adrian Brown Memorial Lecture. Journal of the Institute of Brewing Volume 27, Issue 5 doi= 10.1002/j.2050-0416.1921.tb02482.x
4. Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith,1994 A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882 Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521434232