Robert Brown
21 Dec 1773 – 10 Jun 1858
English botanist, noted for his investigation into the impregnation of plants. Served as naturalist on HMS `Investigator' 1801-1803, on its voyage to the Dutch East Indies and Australia, and was librarian to Sir Joseph Banks 1810-1812, and later was with the British Museum.-https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.79302
Books
- The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown
- Some observations on the natural family of plants called Compositæ
- On the Asclepiadeæ, a natural order of plants separated from the Apocineæ of Jussieu
- Some observations on the parts of fructification in mosses
- Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 ...
- Botanical works
- The miscellaneous botanical works of R.Brown
- Sur la pluralité et le développement des embryons dans les graines des conifères
- Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen
- On some remarkable deviations from the usual structure of seeds and fruits
- A list of plants, collected in Melville Island, by the officers of the expedition
- On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchidaceæ and Asclepiadeæ
- Illustrationes floræ Novæ Hollandiæ, sive icones generum quæ in prodromo floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen
- On Woodsia, a new genus of ferns
- Voyages et découvertes dans le nord et dans les parties centrales de l'Afrique
- Observations on the structure and affinities of the more remarkable plants
- An account of a new genus of plants, named Rafflesia
- Chloris Melvilliana
- Miscellaneous Botanical Works
- Prodromus floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et Insulæ Van Diemen
- Characters and descriptions of three new species of plants found in China by Clarke Abel
- On the female flower and fruit of Rafflesia arnoldi and on Hydnora africana
- Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817
- Supplementum primum Prodromi floræ Novæ Hollandiæ
- Systematische und geographische bemerkungen über die von Christian Smith in der nachbarschaft des congo-stroms gesammelten pflanzen
- Botanical Works
- Über die Asclepiadeen, eine natürliche pflanzenfamilie, welche von Jussieu's Apocyneen abgesondert werden muss
- Bryological Papers from the Library of Charles Lyell
- Some observations on the natural family of plants called Compositæ
- Observations systematical and geographical on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo
- Some account of Triplosporite, and undescribed fossil fruit
- On the Proteaceæ of Jussieu
- Les conifères
- Pterocymbium, with observations on Sterculieæ, the tribe to which it belongs
- Prodromus Floræ Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen
- Flora der Melville Insel
- Character and description of Kingia
- On Woodsia, a new genus of ferns
- Supplementary observations on the Fecundation of Orchideæ and Asclepiadeæ
- A brief account of microscopical observations
- On the Asclepiadeæ, a natural order of plants separated from the Apocineæ of Jussieu
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