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Robert Brown, FRS, lived from 21 December 1773 to 10 June 1858. He was a botanist best known for his work in Australia, and he was also one of the first to observe the phenomenon since called Brownian motion. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Robert Brown was born in Montrose.

After being schooled locally he went on to become a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, where fellow students included Thomas Dick and Robert Jameson.

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In 1795 he joined the army as a surgeon, and in 1800 volunteered to serve as the naturalist on board HMS Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders, RN. The expedition arrived off what is now Western Australia in December 1801. Over the next two and a half years Brown collected some 3400 species of plants, of which around 2000 were previously unknown.

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