Robert Brown and Mungo Park

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Collecting, Observing, and Describing the Natural World.- Scientific Ferment in late Eighteenth Century Edinburgh.- Scientific Exploration During Voyages of Discovery.- ... the plants of Scotland might be equally useful.- Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa.- A good practical Botanist.- So remote a country as New Holland.- The Crew labouring under the Same disorder.- Mungo Park's Last Journey.- A Tedious and Uncomfortable Passage.- Prodrommus, Florae Novae Hollndiae.- Banks's Librarian.- Taking leave of Sir Joseph Banks.- Pollen Grains of Clarkis pulchella.- Epilogue: The greatest of Banksian botanist-librarians.- Bibliography.

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Robert Brown;Mungo Park;Scottish Enlightenment;Plant Geography;Brownian Movement;Voyages of Discovery;Natural System of Classification;Biological Taxonomy