WILLIAM BROWNE 299 



buried in the Antechapel of his College. A gravestone of black 

 marble preserves his memory : 



H. S. E. 

 GULIELMUS BROWNE S. T. B. 



HUJUS COLLEGII SOCIUS 



VIR 



INDUSTRIAE INDEFESSAE, 



ERUDITIONIS PERSPECTAE : 



QUI S. THEOLOGIAE HORAS COMPOSITAS 



REI BOTANICAE SUCCESIVAS 



IMPENDENS, 



IN UTRAQUE EMICUIT 



APOPLEXIA CORREPTUS SUCCUBUIT 



FATO MULTUM LUGENDO 



NISI VIXISSET INDIES. MORITURUS. 



OB. MAR. 25, AN. AET. 49° 



MD CLXXVIII. 



Canon Vaughan ^ favours the view that the presence of so well- 

 known a botanist at Magdalen College would account for Goodyer's 

 gift of botanical books to the College ; and this idea would gain in 

 probability if we could establish a close kinship between William 

 Browne of Magdalen and Goodyer's Hampshire neighbour of the 

 same name. But so far we have not found any evidence on this 

 point. 



Mr. Druce {Flora Berks., p. cvi) is not quite right in saying that 

 no certain writing of Browne's has been discovered, for we have 

 specimens of his signature at Magdalen, and for several reasons we 

 believe that Druce is also mistaken in suggesting that the MS. 

 notes in one of the Bodleian copies of Lyte's Herbal were made by 

 Browne : they are obviously by an earlier member of Magdalen 

 College who had studied at Padua. 



Browne is best known through the Catalogus Horti Botanici 

 Oxoniensis prepared by Bobart, Dr. Stephens, the Principal of Mag- 

 dalen Hall, and himself in collaboration, but both Anthony Wood 

 and Merrett agree 'that he had the chief hand in it', and the MS. 

 copy in the British Museum gives his name as that of the author. 



Attention has been drawn to the fact that in this edition the 

 authors have, in every instance where it was possible, not only 

 adopted the scientific appellation given by Gerard and Parkinson 



* Cornhill Magazine, 1909, p. 802. 



