BROWN, FRANCIS (1849-1916), American Semitic scholar, was born in Hanover (N.H.), Dec. 26, 1849, the son of Samuel Gilman Brown (1813-85), president of Hamilton Col lege from 1867 to 1881, and the grandson of Francis Brown (1784 1820), a president of Dartmouth involved in the famous "Dart mouth College case." The younger Francis graduated from Dart mouth and from the Union Theological Seminary and then studied in Berlin. In 1879 he became instructor in biblical philology at the Union Theological Seminary, in 1881 an associate professor, in 1890 professor of Hebrew and cognate languages and in 1908 president of the seminary. Brown's published works won him honorary degrees in both Great Britain and America; they were, with the exception of The Christian Point of View (1902; with Profs. A. C. McGiffert and G. W. Knox), almost purely linguistic and lexical, and include Assyriology: its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study (1885), and the important revision of Gesenius, undertaken with S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1891-1905) . In iii he was tried for heresy before the Presbyterian General Board but was exonerated. He died in New York on Oct. 15, 1916.