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“Il. Anecdotes of the late Dr. Patrick Browne, Author of the Natural 
Hiftory of Famaica. By Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Efg. V.P. Lz S. 
Read Dec. 1, 1795. 
Eps: 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. 
1 fent him a meffage that I would wait on him. He was 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 refpeét as a lover of the Science of Botany ; 
and. I gave him the firft information of our inftitution, and the fuc- 
cefs that had hitherto attended our refearches. 
_ He converfed much on the fubjeé& of botany, and informed me 
that he had correfponded for twenty years with Linnzus himfelf, and 
had communicated many plants to him. Thofe Gentlemen who 
are at all converfant with the dmenitates Academice will recollect, 
in the fifth volume of that collection, a paper under the title of 
Pugillus Plantarum Famaicenfum, ix which the defcriptions of 130 
fpecies are. more correétly given than they ftand in Dr. Browme’s 
book. This was in confequence of Dr. Solander’s having purchafed 
Browne's whole colle€tion, and fent it to Sweden for Linnzus., 
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