Robert Brown : List of words and their equivalents in the Georges River Natives language. Collected on 2 October 1803 by botanist Robert Brown of HMS Investigator in the vicinity of Mill Creek (Yurakarang) near its junction with the George’s River (close to Holsworthy). He noted mangroves (Avicenna) which are marked on the map today. Brown obtained these 58 words and phrases and some plant names from Aborigines he met while botanising. MS B3V:ff [[MSS 3. v. iv]] 258-259, Botanic Library, Natural History Museum, London. Transcribed by Keith V Smith 2002. AJCP microfilm reel, Mitchell Library, Sydney. [An addendum handwritten note on the Brown plant list says Brown was "’at Port Jackson from May-July 1802 and June-Dec. 1803. "Oct-Nov. 1804 he was at the Hunter River and "Jan-May 1805 again in Sydney. See Mobberley, D.J. 1985"’Jupiter Botanicus’"’Robert Brown of the British Museum. I believe his diary is in press. Beth Gott 12/3/98] =================================================== [Robert Brown (1773-1858). Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen. Served in Fifeshire regiment 1795-1800. Associate of Linnean Society 1798. Naturalist on H.M.S. Investigator 1801-3. Collected specimens in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 1803-05. Published Podromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen in 1810, with appendix in 1830, and appendix to M. Flinders. A Voyage to Terra Australia, 1814. Clerk and librarian to Linnean Society 1805-10, librarian to Sir Joseph Banks 1810-20, joined staff of British Museum in 1827. President of Linnean Society, 1849-53] [Notes at start of Robert Brown Papers 1800-55 AJCP Search Lists M 2468-2518: Vol. 11] ===================================================== English botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858): field notebooks in AJCP (Australian Joint Copying Project). The notebooks are full of botanical terminology in Latin, nearly indecipherable, written probably in pencil, sometimes or often very faintly. Location: vicinity of Mill Creek (Yurakarang) near its junction with the Georges River (close to Alfords Point and the start of the Holdsworthy military reserve). Then along the Georges River, but unclear which direction. Brown says ’below Mill Creek’, which suggests downstream towards Botany Bay rather than towards East Hills and Hammondville. This deduced from the following Brown notes: Brown wrote: • Georges River From Fewtrells. Banks low Wooded alluvial sandstone occasionally on the surface. mangroves Timber not large. Banksia Eucalyptus Casuarina 1st mile general direction N & S but little winding. Breadth about 120 yards West Bank about a mile down rises gently rocky. East Bank continues low begins to incline S.E. for about 1/4 mile then E. Banks the same Creek. [261.63:6-13] • Mill Creek SSW three miles from Fewtrells [261.63:21]. Native name Yurakarang. • W. Bank below Mill Creek back land rising rocky. bank [?] chief [itself? steep ?] thickly covered with mangrove Avicennia & Agiceras. [261.64:6] • E. bank about 3/4 mile below Mill Creek high rocky oppos[ite] bank low. Course of the River nearly N & S both banks rocky Nook [rock?] stand [sic] stone. Swamp Oak common on the Banks. [261.64:12] • River about 5 miles below. Course NNE. Banks or back [?] land rocky. [262.69:5] ----------- [Transcription checked with: Vallance, T. G., D. T. Moore, et al., Eds. (2001). Nature's investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Canberra, Australian Biological Resources Study. They work out the route as: Georges River: East Hills - Mill Creek - Lugarno/Woronora R. / Oatley region. Date: 2-3 October 1803. -------------------- AJCP M2495: this is reel M2495 in the M for Miscellaneous Series. Brown’s Vol II, pp. 119-122 contains a word list of plant names with their English equivalents. p. 264, also numbered 72, has a single Aboriginal word (mong:L ant). p. 263 (75) has 7 Aboriginal words Pages 260-264 transcribed by Jeremy Steele, Wednesday 9 June 2004 ========= ============== Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything(Black Swan, 2004): ‘It was not until 1831 would anyone first see the nucleus of a cell"it was found by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, that frequent but always shadowy visitor to the history of science. Brown, who lived from 1773 to 1858, called it nucleus from the Latin nucula, meaning little nut or kernel.’ (p.456-7) ========= JS LIST LOCATION: Word List A-L ringbinder [1802/3] [Robert Brown MSS, Natural History Museum, London. Reel 2495 AJCP, vol.2, pp. 119-122 ALSO ’NATURE’S INVESTIGATOR: The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805’: EXTENSIVE PHOTOCOPIES IN ’Sydney Aboriginal"Early readings’