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Brown, Philip (d. 1779): d. Manchester?, 1779. M.D. Of 

 Manchester. ' Cat. of very curious pL, collected by the late 

 . . . lately deceased, to be sold at his garden near Manches- 

 ter,' 1779. Pritz. 43 ; Didt. Nat. Biog. vii. 23. 



Brown, Robert (1767 ?-1845) : b. Perth ?, 1767 ? ; d. near Phila- 

 delphia, Penn., 20 Sept., 1845. Nurseryman. Of Perth. Pound 

 Menziesia ccerulea. Introduced Swede. Visited America with 

 James McNab in 1834. Gard. Ohron. 1845, 755 ; Loud. Gard. 

 Mag. xii. ; Loudon, ' Arboretum,' 182 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 

 •285. 



Brown, Robert (1773-1858) : b. Montrose, 21 Dec, 1773 ; d. 

 London, 10 June, 1858 ; bur. Kensal Green. A.L.S., 1798; 

 • F.L.S., 1822; President, 1849-53; F.E.S., 1811 ; D.C.L. 

 Oxon, 1832; LL.D. Knight " pour le m6rite." Naturalist 

 to Flinders' Expedition, 1801-5. Librarian to Banks, 1810, 

 and to the Linn. Soc. First Keeper of Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus., 

 1827. ' Prodromus Florae NovEe HoUandise,' 1810-30. E.B. 

 1702,2879. " Botanicorum facile princeps," Humboldt. Pritz. 

 43 ; Jacks. 527 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1859, xxv. 1887-8, 54 ; 

 Baillon, i. 501 ; E. S. C. i. 660 ; vii. 279 ; ' Times ' quoted in 

 Cott. Gard. xx. 176 ; Proc. E. S. ix. 527 ; Proc. E. Geogr. 

 S. iii. 237 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vii. 25. Oil portr. by Pickers- 

 gill and bust by Slater at Linn. Soc, bust and portr. at Brit. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., and portr. at Kew. Brunonia Sm. 



Brown, Thomas (fl. 1816-34). Captain, Forfarshire Mihtia. 

 F.L.S., 1816. Added notes, &c., to White's ' Selborne,' 1833. 

 Contrib. to Johnston's ' Fl. Berwick-on-Tweed.' Hist. 

 Berwicksh. Field Club, i. 9. 



Browne, Patrick (c. 1720-90) : b. Woodstock, Co. Mayo, c. 1720; 

 d. Eushbrook, Co. Mayo, 29 Aug., 1790; bur. Crossboyne. 

 M.D. Leyden, 1743. Curator, Oxford Bot. Gard. In 

 Antigua, 1737. In Jamaica, 1746-55. ' Natural History 

 of Jamaica,' 1756. MS. ' Fasciculus Plantarum Hiberniee ' 

 at Linn. Soc. MS. Flora Indiee Occidentalis. Herbarium 

 purchased by Linnaeus for 8 guineas. Irish pi. in Lambert's 

 herbarium. Pult. ii. 349 ; Pritz. 44 ; Jacks. 370 ; Linn. 

 Corr. i. 39, 42 ; ii. 480 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 31 ; Baillon, 

 i. 502 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vii. 63. Brownaa Jacq. 



Browne, Samuel (d. before 1703). M.D. Surgeon to H.E.I.C. 

 at Madras. Sent plants to Petiver, Phil. Trans, xx. 313 ; 

 xxiii. Plants in Sloane Herbarium. Pult. ii. 38, 39, 62 ; 

 Pritz. 44 ; Eich. Corr. 76 ; Linn. Corr. ii. 165 ; ' Museum 

 Petiverianum,' 43. 



Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-82) :, b. St. Michael's, Cheapside, 

 London, 19 Oct., 1605; d. Norwich, 19 Oct., 1682; bur. St. 

 Peter Mancroft, Norwich. B.A. Oxon, 1627; M.A., 1629; 

 M.D. Leyden, 1644; M.D. Oxon, 1637; P.E.C.P., 1664. 

 Knighted, 1671. 'The Garden of Cyrus,' 1658. 'Plants 

 ... in Scripture,' &c., in posthumous works. Discovered 

 Siiaeda fniticosa (B. Bot. 635). Pritz. 44 ; Life and Works, 

 ed. Wilkin, 1836; Nich. Illustr. vi. 830; Munk, i. 321; 

 Felton, 94; Cott. Gard. v. 15; Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 296; Diet. 



