Nature's Investigator: The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

by Robert Brown, D. T. Moore, T. G. Vallance, and E.W. Groves

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Robert Brown was one of the first professional botanists to visit Australia. He accompanied Flinders on his official circumnavigation of Australia in the ship Investigator, and later collected extensively in New South Wales and Tasmania. The result was published, in part in his Prodromus (1810), and in other shorter works, particularly on Proteaceae. Brown came to be recognised as the leading British botanist of his day. His extensive herbarium, of which the main set is lodged in the British Natural History Museum, was also extensively consulted by other botanists, and is particularly rich in Australian type material. While in...Read more
  • ISBN10 0642568170
  • ISBN13 9780642568175
  • Publish Date 1 January 2001
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 March 2021
  • Publish Country AU
  • Imprint Australian Biological Resources Study
  • Edition Annotated edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 678
  • Language English