Papers [microform] : [M2494-2496] 1800-1855
- Bib ID:
- 781809
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Brown, Robert, 1773-1858
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
- 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- Australian Joint Copying Project microform collection.
- Summary:
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The papers include correspondence with botanists and others relating to botanical specimens and the botany of Australia, Antarctica, Norfolk Island, New Zealand and the East Indies ; papers relating to Brown's book Produmus Florae Novae Hollandiae including corrections and additions ; papers re Brown's appointment as naturalist on HMS Investigator, arrangements for the voyage and fossils and minerals collected in Australia ; correspondece re Brown's Australian expedition, 1803-6 ; papers re Capt. M. Flinders and Ann Flinders ; account of Thomas Mitchell's expedition into the interior of N.S.W. ; diary of travels in Australia, 1801-4 containing list of plants and Aboriginal words ; botanical notes and manuscripts by Brown on Australian plants ; paper on plants collected by Charles Fraser, Capt. Sturt, Sir T. Mitchell, W. Baxter, G. Caley , J. Banks, D. Solander and other papers.
- Biography/History:
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Naturalist on HMS Investigator, 1801-3. Collected specimens in N.S.W. and Van Diemen's Land, 1803-5. Clerk and Librarian to Linnean Society, 1805-10; librarian to Sir Joseph Banks, 1810-20; joined staff of British Museum, 1827; President of Linnean Society, 1849-53.
- Notes:
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- Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
- National Library of Australia holds microfilm master.
- Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2494-2496.
- Microfilm copy of originals held by the British Museum (Natural History), London.
- Related Material:
- Associated material : Correspondence of Robert Brown has been filmed at AJCP reel M1193.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1800-1855
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Papers and correspondence of Robert Brown (Australian Joint Copying Project)..
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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