Robert Brown - Papers [M2494-2496] 1800-1855

M 2494-2496

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432842

Microfilm : M 2494-2496 (detailed contents list, 13pp., is at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 11)

microfilm reels 35 mm

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

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

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 for copies
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2494-2496
Microfilm copy of originals held by the British Museum (Natural History), London
Associated material : Correspondence of Robert Brown has been filmed at AJCP reel M1193
Descriptive list available (11 p.)