Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs FRSE FFPSG (1774 – 16 March 1853) was a noted Scottish surgeon with an interest in botany, mineralogy and fossil collecting.
His father was a wealthy banker, also called Thomas Brown, and had purchased 117 acres of land in Langside from Robert Crawford of Possilpark.
This collection consists of 5,473 mineral samples and around 1,600 fully catalogued fossils received by the University of Glasgow in several instalments between 1875 and 1897.
[1] Six hundred items of the mineral collection was passed to the University of Edinburgh in 1874, where it is now held by its Geology Department.
[3] On his daughter's Martha's death her fortune was left to the University of Glasgow to provide the Lanfine Bursaries.