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| | Robert Brown (www.whonamedit.com) |
 | | Scottish botanist and plant geographer, born December 21, 1773, Montrose, Angus, Scotland; died June 10, 1858, Soho Square, London, England. |
 | | On a visit to London in October, 1798, to recruit for the regiment, Brown met the botanist Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), president of the Royal Society. |
 | | Returning to England in October 1805 with vast collections of drawings and notes and many zoological specimens, Brown devoted his time to classifying the approximately 3,900 species he had gathered, almost all of which were new to science. |
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