Robert Brown and Mungo Park : travels and explorations in natural history for the Royal Society

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Introduction : Collecting, Observing, and Describing the Natural World = xv
• 1 Scientific Ferment in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh = 1
• Edinburgh and the Scottish Enlightenment = 1
• 2 Scientific Exploration During Voyages of Discovery = 5
• Banks’s Role in Advancing Exploration in Natural History = 7
• 3 “… The Plants of Scotland Might Be Equally Useful” = 15
• Robert Brown’s Early Life = 15
• Mungo Park = 18
• Travels to Sumatra = 21
• 4 Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa = 25
• Park’s First African Adventure = 25
• Park Search in the Interior = 28
• Park’s Capture = 30
• Park’s Escape = 32
• Park’s Travels Home = 37
• Park’s Celebrated Return = 38
• Aftermath of Park’s Journey = 40
• 5 A Good Practical Botanist = 45
• The Fencibles in Ireland = 45
• Brown’s Extended Stay in Britain = 46
• The Plan to Explore New Holland = 49
• Brown’s Opportunity = 50
• Brown’s Appointment as Naturalist on HMS Investigator = 55
• 6 So Remote a Country as New Holland = 61
• Madeira = 62
• Cape Town = 63
• Western Australia = 65
• Southern Australia = 67
• The Great Australian Bight = 68
• Encounter with the French = 74
• Bass Strait, Victoria = 76
• Port Jackson, New South Wales = 78
• 7 The Crew Laboring Under the Same Disorder = 83
• Toward the Great Barrier Reef = 83
• The Great Barrier Reef = 90
• Torres Strait, Queensland = 92
• Northern Territory = 94
• The North Coast = 97
• Timor and Then Sydney = 99
• 8 Mungo Park’s Last Journey = 103
• Park’s Life at Home = 103
• Life as a Scottish Country Doctor = 105
• Park’s Opportunity for Further Adventure = 108
• Park’s Fateful Journey = 112
• 9 A Tedious and Uncomfortable Passage = 121
• Brown’s Journeys from Sydney = 126
• Tasmania = 127
• Work in the Hunter River Area = 133
• The Return Home = 135
• 10 Prodromus, Florae Novae Hollandiae = 141
• The Salisbury Affair = 149
• Proteaceae = 150
• Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae = 152
• Botanicorum Facile Princeps = 154
• 11 Banks’s Librarian = 157
• Botany of Terra Australis = 158
• Reproductive Structures in Mosses = 159
• Caley’s Assessment of Brown’s Work = 160
• Brown’s Association with Smith and Other Naturalists = 161
• The Herbarium of Professor Christian Smith = 166
• Henry Salt’s Collection from Abyssinia = 167
• The Largest Flower in the World = 167
• The Natural Family, Compositae = 171
• Brown Assesses His Future = 171
• 12 Taking Leave of Sir Joseph Banks = 173
• Brown as a Clearinghouse in Natural History = 175
• The Politics of the Royal Society = 179
• 13 Pollen Grains of Clarkia pulchella = 181
• Brownian Movement and Brown’s Microscopy = 182
• Brown’s Observation of the Nucleus = 184
• Work on Thomas Horsfeld’s Observations = 186
• Brown’s Final Years = 189
• Epilogue : The Greatest of Banksian Botanist-Librarians = 195
• Bibliography = 201
• Index = 207