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IT. Anecdotes of the late Dr. Patrick Browne, Author of the Natural 

 Hi/lory of Jamaica. By Aylmer Bourhe Lambert, Efq. V. P. L. S. 



Read Dec. i, 1795. 



HAVING in a vifit to Ireland in the year 1790 accidentally 

 met with Dr. Patrick Browne, well known to this Society by 

 his Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, I judged it might not be an unac- 

 ceptable anecdote to give fome account of my interview with this 

 veteran in thofe purfuits which form the intentions of our meetings. 



I firft heard of him by the country people in the neighbourhood 

 of Ballinrobe in the county of Mayo, at which place he lived. 

 I fent him a meffage that I would wait on him. He wns then fo 

 infirm that I found him confined to his room and his bed, but he 

 received me with much cordiality when I told him my errand was 

 to vifit him merely from refpect as a lover of the Science of Botany ; 

 and I eave him the firft information of our inftitution, and the fuc- 

 cefs that had hitherto attended our refearches. 



He converfed much on the fubjecl: of botany, and informed me 

 that he had correfponded for twenty years with Linnasus himfelf, and 

 had communicated many plants to him. Thofe Gentlemen who 

 are at all converfant with the Amanitates Academic* will recollect, 

 in the fifth volume of that collection, a paper under the title of 

 PuzUius Plantarum Jamaicenfium, in which the defcriptions of 130 

 fpeeies are more correctly given than they Hand in Dr. Browne's 

 book. This was in confequence of Dr. Solander's having purchafed 

 Browne s whole collection, and fent it to Sweden for JLinnaeus. 



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