īrown enrolled to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but developed an interest in botany, and ended up spending more of his time on the latter than the former. As a child Brown attended the local Grammar School (now called Montrose Academy), then Marischal College at Aberdeen, but withdrew in his fourth year when the family moved to Edinburgh in 1790. His mother was Helen Brown née Taylor, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. He was the son of James Brown, a minister in the Scottish Episcopal Church with Jacobite convictions so strong that in 1788 he defied his church's decision to give allegiance to George III. 2.2 Desertas, Madeira and the Cape of Good Hopeīrown was born in Montrose on 21 December 1773, in a house that existed on the site where Montrose Library currently stands.He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming the observation of Brownian motion early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms and some of the earliest studies in palynology. Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLS MWS (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh
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