Brown, Robert

BROWN, Robert, botanist, explorer (b 23 Mar 1842, Camster, Scotland; d 26 Oct 1895, London, England). He arrived in VICTORIA from Scotland in May 1863 with a commission as seed collector for the BC Botanical Assoc of Edinburgh. After a year travelling on VANCOUVER ISLAND and the mainland, he was named leader of the VANCOUVER ISLAND EXPLORING EXPEDITION. He saw the expedition as an opportunity to gather scientific information and he was discouraged to find that other members saw it chiefly as an...

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