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Blurb: Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a classmate of Thomas Dick. He joined the army as a surgeon in 1795. | |
Tags: Mycologist, Botanist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Naturalist, Scottish, cambridge university
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