Robert Brown Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Robert Brown NPG D32223
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Thomas Herbert Maguire
Born in Montrose, Scotland, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1800 he took the position of naturalist on board The Investigator, which was departing on a voyage to chart the coast of Australia. He was to oversee the collecting of animals, rocks, and plants. Returning in 1805, he spent the next five years working on the material he had gathered. He published numerous species descriptions; in Western Australia alone he is credited with the naming of over a thousand species. He became... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










