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Brown, Robert (1773 - 1858)
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Botanist
Born: 21 December 1773.  Died: 10 June 1858  Soho Square, England.
Robert Brown was naturalist on the Mathew Flinders expedition of 1801 to 1803. After the trip he settled in New South Wales where he collected botanical specimens and in Van Diemen's Land (1803 to 1805). He published various works on the flora of Australia, including his book Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae v.1 (1810). Brown is also recognised as the discoverer of the process of molecular agitation which has since been called 'Brownian movement' in his honour. He actually trained as a doctor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland before the Flinders expedition, but did not graduate.
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1795 - 1800Commissioned Surgeon's Mate with the Fifeshire Regiment of Fencibles
1801 - 1805Naturalist on the Matthew Flinders expedition on the Investigator
1805 - 1810Clerk, Librarian and Housekeeper to the Linnean Society
1810Prodomus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen published
1810 - 1820Librarian to Joseph Banks
1820Bequeathed a life interest in Banks's collections
1827Banks collection transferred to the British Museum

 
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