3 2 Mr. L a mber t 's Anecdotes of 



And hence, in the Species Plantarum of 1764, Linnaeus was enabled 

 to correct both Sloane and Browne himfelf in many inftances. 



After Dr. Browne's return from Jamaica, and the publication of 

 his Hiftory, he rook another voyage to the Weft Indies, where he 

 refided, principally in Montferrat and Antigua, occupied in the 

 praaice of phyfic, for four years. He returned home for the laft 

 time in 1781. 



Having much leifure during this ftay in the iflands, he collefted 

 a large Herbarium, and many feeds, which on his return he pre- 

 fented to Dr. Edward Hill, ProfefTor of Botany in the Univerfity of 

 Dublin. * 



.He alfo began a Flora India Occidentalis, which formed a thin 

 quarto volume; this he prefented to me, and it is now in the pof- ' 

 lemon of our Prefident. I recoiled, in fpeaking of this manu- 

 fenpt, that he told me he had taken uncommon pains to defcribe 

 and difcriminate the generic chafers of the Ipomcea and Convol- 

 vulus; and that Linnaeus had figniiied, in a letter to him, his appro- 

 bation of the distinctions given of thofe genera. 



I could not help remarking the fmall number of books that he 

 feemed to poffefs on the fubject of Natural Hiftory, his fupellex 

 being confined to the Genera and Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, and a 

 copy of Hill's edition of Ra/s Synopjis, efpecially when I recollected 

 the coniiderable number of authors he had quoted in his Hiftory of 

 Jamaica ; but he foon gave me to underftand that in his laft voyage 

 he had the misfortune to lofe his library, confiding of 200 volumes 

 on Natural Hiftory fubjects. 



During my abode in his neighbourhood I paid him feveral vifits 

 in one ot which he made me a prefent of a MS. Flora Hibernica 

 and of a fmall Herbarium collected in the counties of Mayo and 

 Galway, with a feparate Coition of Moflcs, which are now in 

 the pofleilion of this Society. 



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