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Scottish botanist (1773–1858)

For other botanists with the same name, see Robert Brown (botanist, born 1842) and Robert Brown (New Zealand botanist).

Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLSMWS (21 månad 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his utforskning of that continent with Matthew Flinders.

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Robert Brown
Botanist
Specialty	Botany
Born	Dec. 21, 1773 Montrose, Scotland
Died	June 10, 1858 (at age 84)
Nationality	Scottish

Robert Brown, a famous botanist from Scotland, was a pioneer in the field of microscopy. He was one of the first botanists to completely describe the nucleus of cells while he also observed Brownian motion. He was also very influential in ‘paleobotany’, the study of primitive plant life.

Brown was one of the scientists on Matt Flinders’s expedition of discovery to New Holland. On his voyage, he gathered many plant samples. He classified them and named many of them. His number of botanical writings and articles made him a highly respected and admired scientist of the century.

Early Years

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Robert Brown was born on December 21, 1773, at Montrose, Scotland. He went to school at Montrose where he studied art. After that, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburg but did not finish his education. He became v

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BROWN, ROBERT, explorer, botanist, and author; b. 23 March 1842 in Camster, Scotland, son of Thomas Brown; m. 1875 Kristiane Augusta Maria Eleonora Rudmose of Ferslev, Denmark, and they had two sons; d. 26 Oct. 1895 in Streatham (London), England.

As a young man, Robert Brown displayed an inclination for travel. In 1861, at the age of 19, he interrupted his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a prize-winner in botany, in order to go on a seal and whale hunt in the Arctic. The party visited Iceland, Greenland, and Baffin Bay (N.W.T.), an area frequented by many Scottish whalers in that period [see William Penny]. Further opportunity for travel occurred when the British Columbia Botanical Association of Edinburgh appointed Brown its seed collector in February 1863.

Brown arrived in Victoria on 6 May. His first expedition was to Great Central Lake, Sproat Lake, Alberni Inlet, and Nootka Sound. Subsequently, he tra