Robert Brown

23 Mar 1842 – 26 Oct 1895

54 works on record

Biography

BROWN, Robert (1842-95). A Scottish scientist and author. He was born in Campster, Caithness, and studied in Edinburgh, Leyden, Copenhagen, and Rostock. He visited Spitzbergen, Greenland, and the western shore of Baffin's Bay (1861), and subsequently carried on scientific investigations among the islands of the Pacific and on the Venezuelan, Alaskan, and Bering shores, making charts of all the unknown interior of Vancouver, and writing much on the fauna and flora of those countries. With E. Whymper, in 1867, he attempted to penetrate the inland ice of Greenland, and made many discoveries concerning its nature which have since been confirmed by Peary. He afterwards traveled in the Barbary States of North Africa, was a lecturer on geology, botany, and zoölogy in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and was a member of many learned societies in England, America, and on the Continent. He removed to London in 1876, and thereafter devoted himself entirely to literary work. In addition to many scientific memoirs, and articles and reviews in various languages, his publications include Peoples of the World (6 vols., 1882-85); Science for All (5 vols., 1877-82); and a Manual of Botany (1874).

Works

Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica

1994

Tales and traditions of the Eskimo, with a sketch of their habits, religion, language and other peculiarities

1975

The adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt

1815

Bibliography Of Morocco From The Earliest Time To The End Of 1891

Science for all

Robert Brown And The Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition

The story of Africa and its explorers

The Races of Mankind; Being a Popular Description of the Characteristics, Manners and Customs of the Principal Varieties of the Human Family

A manual of botany, anatomical and physiological

Story of Africa and Its Explorers; Volume 1

Synopsis of the Birds of Vancouver Island

The Countries of the World

On the vegetable products, used the the North-West American Indians as food and medicine, in the arts and superstitious rites

Monograph of the coniferous genus Thuja, Linn., and of the North American species of the genus Libocedrus, Endl

Vancouver Island [microform]

Story of Africa and Its Explorers; Volume 1

Races of Mankind

Science for All; Vol. 1

Story of Africa and Its Explorers; Volume 3

Wild Africa

Science for all

Vermischte Botanische Schriften; Volume 1

Story of Africa and Its Explorers; V. 2

The Countries of the World

Story of Africa and Its Explorers; V. 3

Science for All; Vol. 2

Science for All; Vol. 4

Notes on the history and geographical relations of the Pinnipedia frequenting the Spitzbergen and Greenland seas

Vancouver Island

The countries of the world

The Races Of Mankind

Adventures of John Jewitt

First Journey of Exploration Across Vancouver Island

Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peoples and Cultures of the World

Descriptions of some new of little-known species of oaks from North-west-America

Florula Discoana

The people of the world

Observations on the medicinal and economic value of the oulachan (Osmerus pacificus, Rich.), a fish belonging to the family Salmonidae, found on the north-west coast of America

Vancouver Island

The present state of science on the northwestern slopes of the Rocky Mountains