biography
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| lived:
| (1773–1858)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Montrose, Angus, E Scotland, UK. He studied at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and in 1798 visited London, where his ability so impressed Sir Joseph Banks that he was appointed naturalist to Matthew Flinders's coastal survey of Australia (1801–5). He brought back nearly 4000 species of plants for classification. In 1810 he received charge of Banks' library and collections, and when they were transferred to the British Museum in 1827 he became botanical keeper. He was the first to note that, in general, living cells contain a nucleus, and to name it. In 1827 he first observed the Brownian movement of fine particles in a liquid. |
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