BROWN, WILLIAM HARVEY ), American zoologist and Rhodesian pioneer, was born at Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 22, 1862. Following his graduation at the University of Kansas in 1887 he became a member of the zoological staff of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington and pursued further studies at Cornell and Georgetown universities. In 1889 he was naturalist on a U.S. Government eclipse expedition to the Congo region. At Cape Town in the same year he joined, as representa tive of the Smithsonian Institution, the original pioneer column sent by Cecil Rhodes to the region north of the Transvaal, later known as Rhodesia. After devoting four years to exploration and zoological collecting he resigned his scientific post and became a citizen of the new colony, in the early development of which he was an active figure. In the Mashona uprising of 1896 he joined the colonial forces and was severely wounded. He developed agricultural and mining properties and later served as mayor of Salisbury and as member of the legislative council. In 1899 he published On the South African Frontier, which contains valu able information on the early history of Rhodesia. His extensive zoological and ethnological collections are best represented in the museum at Cape Town, the National museum at Washington, the Carnegie museum at Pittsburgh, the museum of the University of Kansas and that of the New York Zoological society. He died at Salisbury on April 24, 1913.