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Authorised form of nameBrown; Horace Tabberer (1848 - 1925)
Dates1848 - 1925
NationalityBritish
Date of birth20 July 1848
Date of death06/02/1925
OccupationBrewer
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
Burton-on-Trent; Royal College of Chemistry
Career:
Worked in the brewing industry, Burton-on-Trent (1866-1895); published on the chemistry associated with fermentation
Memberships:
FCS; FIC; FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1889
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1903; Copley Medal 1920
Lectures:
Bakerian 1905
RelationshipsBrother of Adrian John Brown (FRS 1911)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1925 vol 109 pp xxiv-xxvii, plate, signed by J B F
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/121267774
CodeNA6968
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1889/06Brown, Horace Tabberer: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000605Brown, Horace Tabberernd
NLB/14/825Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Herbert Rix, Secretary, Lawes Trust Committee26 May 1897
NLB/23/2/391Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to General The Right Honorable Sir Dighton Probyn5 November 1903
RR/16/320Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The effect of plant growth & of manures upon the soil: the retention of bases by the soil' by A D Hall and N H J Muller2 June 1905
RR/15/182Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The nature & origin of the poison of lotus arabicus' by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan and T A HenryJune 1901
NLB/21/194Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society25 September 1900
NLB/14/824Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society25 May 1897
RR/16/322Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The function of silica in the nutrition of cereals. Part I.' by A D Hall and C G T MorisonFebruary 1905
RR/15/322Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Cyanogenesis in plants. Part II. The great millet, sorghum vulgare' by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan and Thomas A Henry1 June 1902
RR/16/229Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies on enzyme action' by George Senter5 June 1904
RR/16/139Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on four papers 'Studies on enzyme action. II.--The rate of the change, conditioned by sucroclastic enzymes, and its bearing on the Law of Mass Action' and ''Studies on enzyme action. III.--The influence of the products of change on the rate of change conditioned by sucroclastic enzymes' by Henry Edward Armstrong, 'Studies on enzyme action. IV.--The sucroclastic action of acids as contrasted with that of enzymes' by Edward Frankland Armstrong and Robert John Caldwell and 'Enzyme action as bearing on the validity of the Ionic-Dissociation Hypothesis and on the phenomena of vital change' by Henry Edward Armstrong10 May 1904
RR/19/9Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies of enzyme action. XV.—Urease: a selective enzyme' by Henry Edward Armstrong and Edward Horton[January 1912]
RR/16/274Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The spontaneous action of radioactive bodies upon gelatin media' by Mr J B BurkeJune 1905
RR/16/192Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The dual force of the dividing cell. Part I. The Achromatic Spindle Figure, elucidated by magnetic chains of force' by Marcus Hartog19 January 1905
RR/17/88Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The action of radium and certain other salts on gelatin' by W A Douglas Rudge[June 1906]
RR/19/4Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies on enzyme action. XVI.—The enzymes of emulsin. (I) Prunase, the correlate of prunasin' by Henry Edward Armstrong, Edward Frankland Armstrong and Edward Horton[April 1912]
RR/17/157Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Cyanogenesis in plants. Part VI.—On phaseolunatin and the associated enzymes in flax, cassava, and the "lima bean."' by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Thomas A Henry and S J M Auld[March 1907]
NLB/15/597Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer2 November 1897
NLB/17/648Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, S.W.8 December 1898
NLB/23/2/397Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1903
NLB/19/336Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society10 August 1899
NLB/21/48Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1900
NLB/21/18Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1900
NLB/21/59Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Dukinfield HenryScott, Fellow of the Royal Society22 July 1900
NLB/21/19Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1900
NLB/21/419Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, S.W.16 November 1900
NLB/23/2/36Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to [Horace Tabberer] Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society, and F Escombe5 March 1901
NLB/24/527Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Horace Tabberer] Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1902
NLB/24/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1902
NLB/24/668Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Swan Electric Engraving Company16 June 1902
NLB/26/101Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1903
NLB/26/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Horace [Tabberer] Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, S.W.28 January 1903
NLB/27/190Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1903
NLB/30/93Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1905
RR/18/98Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The action of bacillus lactis aërogenes on glucose and mannitol' by G S Walpole30 October 1910
NLB/30/487Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington31 March 1905
NLB/30/363Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society13 March 1905
NLB/29/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society15 September 1904
NLB/30/440Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1905
NLB/28/830Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1904
NLB/29/908Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society11 January 1905
NLB/34/500Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society30 January 1907
NLB/32/859Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr Horace Brown, [Fellow of the Royal Society]7 June 1906
NLB/36/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1907
NLB/35/661Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society27 June 1907
NLB/36/826Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society23 December 1907
NLB/43/294Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1910
NLB/44/58Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H [Horace] T [Tabberer] Brown LL.D, FRS 1 May 1910
NLB/44/246Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Horace Brown FRS 30 May 1911
NLB/46/538Copy letter from T E James, to Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society18 September 1912
NLB/47/315 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Horace T [Tabberer] Brown FRS14 January 1912
NLB/51/267Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Horace Tabberer Brown FRS27 January 1915
NLB/52/476Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Horace Tabberer Brown Esquire, FRS17 December 1915
RR/16/315Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Further observations on the germination of the seeds of the castor oil plant (ricinus communis)' by Joseph Reynolds Green and H Jackson30 March 1905
RR/17/115Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on 'Studies on enzyme action. X. — The nature of enzymes' by Henry Edward Armstrong and Edward Frankland Armstrong[May 1907]
NLB/52/505Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Horace Tabberer Brown Esquire, FRS4 January 1916
RR/17/105Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The mechanism of carbon assimilation in green plants: the photolytic decomposition of carbon dioxide in vitro' by Francis L Usher and J H Priestley[May 1906]
NLB/54/17Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Horace Tabberer] Brown Esquire, FRS22 January 1917
RR/19/6Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies on enzyme action. XVIII.—Enzymes of the emulsin type. (III) Linase and other enzymes in Linaceae' by Henry Edward Armstrong and J Vargas Eyre[April 1912]
RR/20/8Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies on enzyme action XIX - Urease: a selective enzyme II - Observations on accelerative and inhibitive agents' by Henry Edward Armstrong and M S Benjamin and Edward Horton17 January 1913
RR/19/137Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The chemical action of Bacillus cloacae (Jordan) on citric and malic acids in the presence and absence of oxygen' by James Thompson28 September 1912
RR/20/58Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The soil solution and the mineral constituents soil' by Alred Daniel Hall, Winifred Elsie Brenchley and Lilian Marion Underwood20 June 1913
RR/24/64Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Some effects of organic growth-promoting substances (auximones) on the soil organisms concerned in the nitrogen cycle' by Florence A Mockeridge11 February 1917
RR/23/51Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Some photochemical experiments with pure chlorophyll and their bearing on theories of carbon assimilation' by Ingvar Jörgensen and Franklin Kidd15 July 1916
NLB/54/381Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Francis Wall] Oliver, FRS26 April 1917
RR/24/18Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Some effects of organic growth-promoting substances (auximones) on the growth of Lemna minor in mineral culture solutions' by W B Bottomley11 February 1917
NLB/56/407Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Horace [Tabberer] Brown Esquire, FRS31 January 1919
RR/22/22Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The influence of auximones on the growth of Lenna Minor' by W B Bottomley21 January 1916
NLB/56/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Horace Tabberer] Brown Esquire, FRS24 March 1919
NLB/56/796Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Horace [Tabberer] Brown Esquire, FRS28 May 1919
RR/14/26Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Observations on stomata' by Francis Darwin19 June 1898
NLB/58/688Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Horace [Tabberer] Brown, FRS7 June 1920
RR/11/216Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The ginger-beer plant, and the organisms composing it: a contribution to the study of fermentation-yeasts and bacteria' by Harry Marshall Ward29 January 1892
RR/18/4Referee's report by Horace Tabbeler Brown, on a paper 'On the origins of osmotic effects III' by Henry Edward Armstrong and Edward Frankland Armstrong1 May 1910
NLB/60/92Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer and Vice President of the Royal Society; to [Horace Tabberer] Brown Esquire, FRS10 December 1920
RR/17/143Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies on enzyme action. IX.— The enzymes of yeast: amygdalase' by Robert John Caldwell and S L Courtauld[May 1907]
RR/18/38Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The oxidation of phenol by certain bacteria in pure culture' by Gilbert J Fowler, Edward Ardern and William T Lockett8 October 1910
RR/15/19Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'Some new observations on the static diffusion of gases and liquids and their significance in certain natural processes occurring in plants' by Horace Tabberer Brown and F EscombeJune 1900
RR/16/396Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'A study of the mechanism of carbon assimilation in green plants' by Francis L Usher and J H PriestleyJanuary 1906
NLB/59/700Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Horace [Tabberer] Brown Esquire, FRS4 November 1920
RR/20/7Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Herbage Studies II - Variation in Lotus corniculatus and trifolium repens (Cyanophoric plants)' by Henry Edward Armstrong, Edward Frankland Armstrong and Edward Horton17 January 1913
RR/14/243Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'A soil bacillus of the type of De Bary’s B. Megatherium' by W C Sturgisnd [February 1899]
NLB/57/46Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to HT [Horace Tabberer] Brown Esq, FRS7 July 1919
RR/18/87Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respira­tion. VI.—Some experiments on assimilation in the open air' by David Thoday13 March 1910
RR/22/66Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The controlling influence of carbon dioxide. Part III.—The retarding effect of carbon dioxide on respiration' by Franklin Kidd2 September 1915
NLB/56/291Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry Forster] Morley, Director of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature7 January 1919
NLB/55/701Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Horace Tabberer] Brown Esq., FRS 25 July 1918
NLB/67/685Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS14 February 1925
NLB/64/901Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, S.W.77 July 1923
RR/15/33Referee's report by Horace Taberrer Brown, on a paper 'A chemical study of the phosphoric acid and potash content of the wheat soil of Broadbalk Field Rothamsted' by Bernard DyerDecember 1900
NLB/68/713Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS20 October 1925
RR/20/15Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The formation of humus from organic substances' by W B BottomleyJune 1913
RR/16/44Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Cyanogensis in Plants, Part III. On Phaseolunation, the Cyanogenetic Glucoside of Phaeolus Lunatus' by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan andThomas A Henry July 1903
RR/16/178Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The ascent of water in trees' by Alfred James EwartFebruary 1905
NLB/34/569Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Horace Tabberer Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1907
RR/16/82Referee's report by Horrace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable- assimilation and respiration III. On the effect of temperature on Carbon Dioxide assimilation' by Gabrielle Louise Caroline MatthaeiOctober 1903
RR/19/5Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Studies on enzyme action. XVII.—Enzymes of the emulsin type. (II) The distribution of ß-enzymes in plants' by Henry Edward Armstrong, Edward Frankland Armstrong and Edward Horton[April 1912]
NLB/54New Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 January 1917-2 November 1917
NLB/55/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Foster Esq., C.I.E., Registar & Superintendent of Records, India Office17 June 1918
RR/15/21Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Some new observations on the static diffusion of gases and liquids and their significance in certain natural processes occurring in plants' by Horace Tabberer Brown and F Escombe13 July 1900
RR/15/65Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison and reply from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the static diffusion of gases and liquids' by Horace Tabberer Brown and F Escombe and 'On the distribution of molecular energy' by James Hopwood Jeans16 July 1900
MS/603/1/141Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor13 June 1900
MS/603/1/144Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor9 May 1905
MS/603/1/139Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor22 May 1900
MS/603/1/137Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor26 September 1899
MS/603/1/140Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor27 May 1900
MS/603/1/142Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor12 November 1900
MS/603/1/146Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor11 December 1905
MS/603/1/148Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, to [Joseph] Larmor18 March 1918
MS/603/1/143Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, Savile Club, 107 Piccadilly, to [Joseph] Larmor27 March 1905
RR/14/78Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Contributions to our knowledge of the formation, storage, and depletion of carbohydrates in monocotyledons' by John Parkin30 November 1898
RR/16/140Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The fossil flora of the Culm-Measures of North West Devon, and the palaeobotanical evidence with regard to the age of the beds' by E A Newell Arber17 June 1904
RR/15/20Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Some new observations on the static diffusion of gases and liquids and their significance in certain natural processes occurring in plants' by Horace Tabberer Brown and F EscombeJune 1900
RR/13/181Letter from Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Some observations on the chemistry of the contents of the alimentary tract under various conditions; and on the influence of the bacteria present in them' by A Lockhart Gillespie to the Secretary of the Royal Society24 June 1892
RR/14/188Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent grass-land, conducted for many years in succession on the same land.—Part III. The chemical results' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert15 August 1899
RR/18/141Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The alcoholic ferment of yeast-juice. Part VI - The influence of arsenates and arsenites on the fermentation of the sugars by yeast-juice' by Arthur Harden and W J Young24 January 1911
RR/20/97Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'Synthesis by sunlight in relationship to the origin of life. Synthesis of formaldehyde from carbon dioxide and water by inorganic colloids acting as transformers of light energy' by Benjamin Moore and T A WebsterJuly 1913
MC/16/43Letter from Henry Edward Armstrong, Horace T Brown, James Geikie, A H Green, A C L G Gunther, E Ray Lankester, E B Poulton, G J Romanes, to the Royal Society[May 1893]
MC/19/96Letter from Horace [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison30 August 1904
MC/19/95Letter from Horace [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison30 June 1904
MS/603/1/138Letter from [Horace Tabberer Brown], 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor27 September 1899
MS/603/1/145Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor18 November 1905
MS/603/1/147Letter from Horace T [Tabberer] Brown, 52 Nevern Square, Kensington, to [Joseph] Larmor13 November 1916
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
NLB/47/186Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H [Horace] T [Tabberer] Brown FRS12 December 1912
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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