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of your works is not to be had in this Kingdom & if you could find 

 mains to send me a sett of your Systema Genera & Species by any 

 vessell from Stockholm I would be greatly oblidged to you, To the care 

 of Anth^ Dermot Esq^ merch'^ in Dublin, as you may direct for meself, 

 untill I am a little better settled, to give you more particular directions. 

 I have not mixt among the learned here yet, not being long enough in 

 the country, but I am afraid they are very few in number. I shall 

 make it my business soon to inquire for some of the merchants that 

 trade from here to Stockholm, so as to be in a way of communicäting 

 more freely with you. Adieu. 



I remain D"^ Sir 



Your most obUdged & obed* 

 humble serv* 

 Pattr Browne 



Utanskrift : 



Illustri Viro 

 D. D. Carolo Linnceo, Equiti Aurato 



Upsaliis 

 Suedia. 



Linn. Soc, Vol. II: 205-206. 



231. 



Dublin Feb. W^ 1771. 



Illustrious Sir 



it is now some years since I heared from you, your last favour I 

 rec*^ at Mountserat, but I returned to this my nation country. Some 

 months gone I made it my business to write to you very soon after. 

 I do suppose my letter has miscarried. I have drawn this winter the 

 outlines of a flora hihernica w'' if I can get some person to assist in 

 colecling from the remots parts, w^ however I intend to visite in per- 

 son, may some day see the light. I was surprised to see your last 

 Lysimachia so placed; the filaments are pairy & the capsule opens ho- 

 risontally. I have not had any glasses to examine the inward form of 

 the capsule & from what I had observed I ranged it amoung the Ana- 

 gallis : I proceed first to range what I have seen in a long journey I 

 have taken thro the country & all the plants that are mentioned by 



