the late Dr. Patrick Browne, 2>3 



In my way to the Doctor I one morning found the Cyncfurus ca- 

 ruleus of Linnaeus, which had efcaped his notice, and of which he 

 immediately gave a fhort defcription. This I have the pleafure of 

 preferring to the Society, as a fpecimen of his hand-writing, and 

 as the laft defcription of a plant that he ever wrote. 



When at Dublin, fome time after I left him, I procured from 

 Mr. Wilfofi the bookfeller the letter I now produce, which was 

 written a little time before his death. I produce it, not becaufe it 

 contains any very interefting information, but as a proof that to 

 the laft he preferved a with to improve and propagate botanical 

 knowledge. By this it appears too, that he had meditated to give 

 all the affiftance in his power towards the publication of the Flora 



Hibernica. 



He received from me the nrft intelligence of the new edition of 

 his Hiftory of Jamaica, and expreffed a great defire to have feen it ; 

 but he died foon after, aged 70, and was buried at Crolhoyne near 

 Caftle Macgarret in the county of Mayo. 



Letter from Dr. Browne to Mr. Wilfon Bookfeller of Dublin, written a 



little while before his Death. 



"MY defign was only to give a fimple and as cheap a Catalogue 

 of the plants! met with here as I could devife. I mentioned it to 

 Sir J. Banks, and he allured me he fpoke to the Provoft, and he 

 promifed to put a Flora Hibernica on foot. Such a Catalogue as 

 mine might be of great fervice to fuch a work, and fuch a work 

 alone deferves the embellishment and attention you mention. But 

 it would require a vifit to the fouth ana 1 north of the kingdom; 

 undertakings by no means fit for infirmity at 70. However, by 

 publithing fmall Catalogues, it might be brought about by indivi- 

 duals, and mine you are welcome to towards any thing of that fort. 



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