32 Mr. Lamsert’s Anecdotes of 
And hence, in the Species Plantarum of 1764, Linnzus 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 took another voyage to the Weft Indies, where he 
refided, principally in Montferrat and Antigua, occupied in the 
practice of phyfic, forfour years. He returned home for the laft 
time in 1781. 
Having much leifure during this ftay in the iflands, he collected 
a large Herbarium, and many feeds, which on his return he pre- 
fented to Dr. Edward Hill, Profeffor of Botany in the Univerfity of 
Dublin. 
He alfo began a Flora Indie Occidentalis, which formed a thin 
quarto volume 5 this he prefented to me, and it is now in the pof- 
{effion of our Prefident. I recolleét, in fpeaking of this manu- 
{cript, that he told me he had taken uncommon pains to defcribe 
and difcriminate the generic characters of the [pomea and Convol- 
vulus; and that Linneus had fignified, in a letter to him, his appro- 
bation of the diftin@ions given of thofe genera. 
I could not help remarking the fmall number of books that he 
{eemed to poffefs:on the fubje& of Natural Hiftory, his fupellex 
being confined to the Genera and Species Plantarum of Linnzus, and a 
copy of Hill’s edition of Ray’s Synop/is, efpecially when I recollected 
the confiderable number of authors he had quoted in his Hiftory of 
Jamaica; but he foon gave me to under {tand that in his laft voyage 
he had the misfortune to lofe his library, confifting of 200 volumes 
on Natural Hiftory fubjects. 
During my abode in his neighbourhood I paid him feveral vifits, 
in one of which he made mea prefent of a MS. Flora Hibernica, 
and of a fmall Herbarium colleéted in ‘the counties of Mayo and 
Galway, with a feparate Collection of Mofles, which are now in 
the poffeffion of this Society. 
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