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system, in quarto, containing about 
eighty pages. 
Dr. Browne long and regularly 
kept up a correspondence with the 
celebrated’ Linnzus, which continu- 
ed to his death. \ 
In Exshaw’s Gentleman’s and 
London Magazine for June, 1774, 
he published ‘A Catalogue of the 
Birds of Ireland,” and in Exshaw’s 
August Magazine following, ‘* A 
Catalogue of its Fish.’ 
In 1788, he got ready for the 
press a very curious and useful 
Catalogue of the Plants of the north- 
West counties of Ireland, classed 
with great care and accuracy ac- 
cording to the Linnawan system, con- 
taining above seven hundred plants, 
mostly observed by himself, having 
trusted very few to the descriptions 
of others, This little tract, written 
in Latin with the English and Irish 
names, might be of considerable use 
in assisting to compile a Flora Hiber- 
nica, a work every botanist will allow 
to be much wanting. 
The doctor was a tall, comely 
man, of good address and gehtle 
manners, naturally cheerful, very 
temperate, and in general healthy; 
but of late years had violent peri- 
odical fits of the gout, by which ‘he 
suficred greatly; in the intervals of 
these unwelcome fits, ‘he formed the 
Catalogue of Plants, and was al- 
ways, when in health, doing some- 
thing in natural history, or mathe- 
matics. Ata very early period he 
marred in Antigua a native of that 
island, but hed no issue. His cir- 
cumstances were moderate but easy, 
aad the poor found ample benefit 
froin his liberality as well as pro- 
fessional skill. This worthy mem- 
ber of society paid the debt of na- 
tureat Rushbrook, coufty of Mayo, 
on Sunday, August 29, 1790, and 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
was interred in the family burial- 
place at Crossboyne. In his will 
he desired the following inscrip- 
tion to be placed on his monu- 
ment, viz. ' 
“* Hane opponi jussit Patri Matri 
Fratribusque Piissimis & sibi; 
Patricius Browne olim Medicus 
Jamaicensis, qui nune insita 
humiliter pro tum inter mor- 
tuos enumerandum deprecetur 
precis fidelium pro se illisque 
offerrt; ut cum Domino Dee 
Requiescant in pace. Amen.” 
His publications are, 
“The Civil and Natural History 
of Jamaica, containing, 1. An ace 
curate Description of that Island, 
its Situation and Soil; with a brief 
Account of its former and present 
State, Government, Revenues, Pro- 
duce, and Trade. © 2. A Istory 
of the Natural Productions, includ- 
ing the various Sorts of Native Fos- 
sils; Perfect and Imperfect Vege- 
tables; Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, 
Reptiles, and Insects; with their 
Properties and Uses in Mechanics, 
Diet, and Physic. 
“* By Patrick Browne, M. D. 
* Tllustrated with forty-nine copper- 
plates, in which the most curious 
productions are represented of their 
natural sizes, and delineated im- 
mediately from the ~ objects, by 
George Dionysius Ehret.” 
In this work, Dr. Browne ob- 
serves ‘* Sir Hans Sloane hath not» 
collected above 800 
plants in all his travels: in Jamaica 
alone I have examined and de~ 
scribed about 1200, besides fossils, 
Insects, and other productions, 
many of which he makes no men- 
ulon of. It must‘be owned, never- 
theless, to his praise, that bis works, 
inaccurate as they are, upon the 
whole, 
species of : 
