FRANK B. BROWN was born at North Chichester, New Hampshire, September 3, 1863, and graduated from Pembroke Academy in 1882. After spending two years at Dartmouth College, he matriculated at the Bowdoin Medical School, from which he graduated in 1887. He first settled for practice in Salina, Kansas, and while there was Coroner of Salina County and Assistant Surgeon to the Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railroads. In May, 1892, he came east, and settled in Dorchester in the September following. The following year he began work at the Tufts Medical School as Assistant in Pathology, and in 1894 was appointed Instructor in Bacteriology also.