The Late Mr. Robert Brown, Keeper of Botany in the British Museum, from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank, 1858. Engraving from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank. On Sir Joseph [Banks]'s recommendation, and attracted by the more than golden promise which the then unexplored regions of New Holland held out to the botanical inquirer, [in 1801] as naturalist in the expedition under Captain Flinders for the survey of the Australian the use of the microscope, and the conviction of the necessity of studying the history of the development of the plant in order to ascerta
The Late Mr. Robert Brown, Keeper of Botany in the British Museum, from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank, 1858. Engraving from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank. On Sir Joseph [Banks]'s recommendation, and attracted by the more than golden promise which the then unexplored regions of New Holland held out to the botanical inquirer, [in 1801] as naturalist in the expedition under Captain Flinders for the survey of the Australian the use of the microscope, and the conviction of the necessity of studying the history of the development of the plant in order to ascertain its true structure and relations, Brown changed the face of the great ideas of growth and development which are now the beacon lights of all research in biological natural system of Jussieu had hitherto made but little its adoption by one who was instinctively recognised as the first botanist of the compelled an almost universal assent to its principles, and led to its general substitution in place of the Linnean method'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
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