The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown ..

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Preface

(BY THE EDITOR.)

Tue present volume contams the first portion of the works of the distinguished author, now for the first time collected in England, and reprinted from the originals, without change, in accordance with his express desire. It had been his intention to reprint them himself with annotations, but, unfortunately for science, this intention was never carried out, and it remained for the Editor simply to superintend a verbatim reprint.

The Memoirs are arranged in three divisions—Ist. Geographico-Botanical; 2nd. Structural and Physiological ; 3rd. Systematic. Of course this arrangement is in some degree arbitrary, inasmuch as observations relating to both of the other divisions are continually occurring in the Memoirs referred to each of them; but, on the whole, it has appeared to be the most convenient for reference. The present volume contains the first two of these divisions; the second will be devoted to Systematic Memoirs and Miscellaneous Descriptions of Plants; and a separate volume, in large 4to, will contain the illustrative figures to both.

JOHN J. BENNETT.

DECEMBER 30TH, 1865.

Cornell University

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Part I. Geographico-botanical Memoirs

PAGE General remarks, peers and Systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis . : ‘ . 1—89

List of new and rare Plants, ee in Kacits during the years 1805 and 1810, arranged according to the Linnean System . 91—95 Observations, Systematical and Geographical, on the Herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo, during the expedition to explore that river, under the command of Captain

Tuckey, in the year 1816 : . : - 97—173 List of Plants collected by the Officers, &c., in Copii Ross’s voyage, on the coasts of Baffin’s Bay : . . « 175—178

Catalogue of Plants found in Spitzbergen by Guptatn Scoresby . 179—182 Chloris Melvilliana, a List of Plants collected in Melville Island, in the year 1820, by the Officers of the Voyage of Discovery under the orders of Captain Parry : ; F . 183—256 Observations on the Structure and Affinities of the more remarkable Plants collected by the late Walter Oudney, M.D., and Major Denham, and Captain Clapperton, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, during their expedition to explore Central Africa P - 257—303 General View of the Botany of Swan River ; d . 805—312

Botanical Appendix to een Sturt’s Expedition into Central Australia ‘ : ‘ . 318—340 vill CONTENTS.