BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817-1856), Scottish chemist, poet and essayist, born at Haddington on Feb. 23, 1817, studied at Edinburgh, Berlin and St. Petersburg. In 185o he published a tragedy, Galileo Galilei, and two volumes of his Lec tures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary appeared in 1858, with a preface by his kinsman Dr. John Brown, the author of Horae Subsecivae. He died at Edinburgh on Sept.
20, 1856.