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5.2.1802. Flinders. Named after Robert Brown (1773-1858 ), botanist, Investigator, born at Montrose, educated at the local grammar school with contemporaries Joseph Hume and James Mill, entered Marischal College in Aberdeen, but moved two years later to Edinburgh University. He met Sir Joseph Banks who offered him the post of naturalist to the Investigator expedition. On his return from Australia in 1805, he was appointed librarian to the Linnean Society and in 1810 librarian to Sir Joseph Banks who on his death in 1820 bequeathed to him the use and enjoyment of his library and collections for life. They were transferred to the British Museum in 1827, in agreement with Banks' will. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1849 to 1853. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1811, he received its Copley Medal in 1839. He received many other honours, including the pour le Mérite of Prussia. He died on 10.06. in the house on Soho Square, London, left to him by Banks. In 1827, he discovered the Brownian Movements.