| Authorised form of name | Brown; Alexander Crum (1838 - 1922) |
| Dates | 1838 - 1922 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 26 March 1838 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |
| Date of death | 28/10/1922 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
Edinburgh University. MA, MD. DSc (London)
Career:
Extra-mural teacher of chemistry, Edinburgh; Professor of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh (1869-1908)
Memberships:
FRCPE
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/06/1879 |
| Relationships | Son of Rev John Brown DD and his wife, sister of Walter Crum (FRS 1844); married Jane Baillie, daughter of Rev James Porter of Drumlee, County Down |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1924 vol 105 pp i-v signed by J W |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/10604455 |
| Royal Society code | NA6481 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1879/05 | Brown, Alexander Crum: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/000596 | Brown, Alexander Crum | nd |
| NLB/7/82 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alexander Crum Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 November 1892 |
| NLB/6/604 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alexander Crum Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 June 1892 |
| NLB/10/895 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | [March 1895] |
| NLB/18/337 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 February 1899 |
| NLB/18/856 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Crum Brown | 1 June 1899 |
| NLB/25/420 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alexander Crum Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 November 1902 |
| NLB/26/360 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Alexander Crum Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 March 1903 |
| NLB/27/710 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alexander Crum Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 November 1903 |
| NLB/31/806 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor A Crum Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 November 1905 |
| RR/9/390 | Referee's report by Alexander Crum Brown, on a paper 'On the vapour pressures of ether' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young | 4 December 1886 |
| RR/11/155 | Referee's report by Alexander Crum Brown, on a paper 'Composition of haemocyanin' by A B Griffiths | 19 May 1892 |
| RR/13/172 | Referee's report by Frank Evers Beddard and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on a paper 'Fragmentation in lineus gesserensis' by Alexander Crum Brown | 16 February 1897 |
| NLB/61/888 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Alexander] Crum Brown, FRS | 9 November 1921 |
| IM/005471 | Brown, Alexander Crum | nd |
| IM/Maull/000597 | Brown, Alexander Crum | nd |
| MC/11/385 | Letter from Alex [Alexander] Crum Brown, University of Edinburgh, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 16 June 1879 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |
| MC/29/41 | Letter from S.E Carr, Assistant Secretary, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, W, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, W | 11 March 1914 |