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Robert Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland where his father, James, was a Scottish Episcopal minister. After attending Marischal College in Aberdeen, he entered the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. He changed to the study of botany and made botanical expeditions into the Scottish highlands. He kept meticulous records of plants and began collecting specimens for the famous British botanist, William Withering. Brown discovered a new species of grass, Alopecurus alpinus. In he read his first paper, "The botanical history of Angus" to the Edinburgh Natural History Society. In he enlisted in the Fifeshire Fencibles and was sent to Ireland as a Surgeon's Mate. Even while in the army, he established his reputation as a botanist and corresponded with many famous botanists of his day. He was nominated to the Linnean Society of London and was acknowledged in the works of many botanists. A species of algae, Conferva brownii was named for him by Lewis Weston Dillwyn. In December he accepted a position as naturalist on an expedition to Australia but the expedition didn't leave England until July of Brown prepared for the trip by studying what had been written on Australian plants. The expedition i

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Robert Brown (botanist, born )

Scottish botanist (–)

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

Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLSMWS (21 December – 10 June ) 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 exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders.

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Robert Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December , in a house that existed on the site where Montrose Library currently stands. He was the son of James Brown, a minister in the Scottish Episcopal Church with Jacobite convictions so strong that in he defied his church's decision to give allegi