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the late Dr. Patrick Browne. 33 
In my way to the Doétor I one morning found the Cynofurus ca- 
ruleus of Linnzus, which had efcaped his notice, and of which he 
immediately gave a fhort defcription. This I have the pleafure of 
prefenting to th ociety, 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. Wilfon 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 Fura 
Hibernica. b A Ao 
He received from me the firft 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 Crofboyne near 
Caftle Macgarret in the county of Mayo. 
Letter from Dr. Browne to Mr. Wilfon Bookfeller of Dublin, written a 
little while before bis Death. 
<¢ MY defign was only to give a fimple and as cheap a Catalogue 
of the plants I met with here as I could devife. I mentioned it to 
Sir J. Banks, and he affured 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 embellifhment and attention you mention. But 
it would require a vifit to the fouth and north of the kingdom; 
undertakings by no means fit for infirmity at 70. However, by 
publithing {mall Catalogues, it might be brought about by indivi- 
duals, and mine you are welcome to towards any thing of that fort. 
Vou. IV. tee . Pultney’s 
