Broun observed large scale pressure changes across India between Shimla and Madras and cyclic variation in magnetic declination. Bourn's assistants in Kerala included J. Kochukunju (Cochoocoonjoo) and E. Kochiravi (Cocheravey) Pillai. Broun, while still in India, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1853. He also built an observatory on Agastya Mala, the highest peak in Travancore, and helped to found the museum and zoological gardens. He had a bifilar magnetometer setup on Agastyamalai between 1855 and 1858. This museum was later demolished and replaced by what is now called Napier Museum. The original zoological gardens still survive as Trivandrum Zoo. Trivandrum. Broun suffered from deafness and sickness in India forcing a return to Europe in 1860 and then returned to India to work for three years. Later career Broun left India for good around 1865, living in Lausanne, Switzerland, and then Stuttgart, Germany, before arriving in London, England, in 1873. He then, with a grant from the Royal Society, worked on analysing magnetic observations made at colonial stations. He also published reports on the Makerstoun and Trivandrum observatories. He was awarded the Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1878 for over 35 years of work on magnetism and meteorology. References Sources Entry for John Allan Broun in Dictionary of National Biography (1903) A. M. Clerke, Anita McConnell, Broun, John Allan (1817–1879), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 Entry for Broun in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 22 April 2008) History of the University, including the University Observatory, from the University of Kerala External links Manuscripts of John Allan Broun, from the National Library of Scotland John Allan Broun entry at the UK's National Archives History of Trivandrum Museum, with three reports by Broun on the museum, the zoological park and the gardens at Trivandrum 1817 births 1879 deaths People from Dumfries Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society Scottish meteorologists Magneticians Royal Medal winners Scottish physicists 19th-century Scottish scientists