TH E Honourable the Eafl-India Company, having 
received from Mr. Samuel Browne^ a Phyfician 
who has Uv'd Seventeea Years in their Service at Fort- 
St, George i oxMadaras, in xht Ea^-Indies^ a very con- 
fiderable Colledion of dried Specimens or Samples of 
Plants, Fruits, and Drugs; together with an Account of 
his Obftrvations of the U(es of them, by the Natives 
and others of thofe Parts, both in Phyfick, Dying, ^c. 
have very generoufly and for the Publick Good, 
prefented them to the Royal Society oi London for im- 
proving Natural Knowledge : Who confidering the great 
Ufe and Improvement may be made of fuch Colleftions, 
have ordered that the Publick (hall have the Benefit of 
this Prefenr, by receiving the whole Accouint tha^ came 
with them, from time to time in thefe Papers, and by 
taking care that the things tliemfelves (hall be prefer ved 
from Corruption in their Repofitoryy where recourfe may 
be had to them by the curious, fo foon as they are put 
into fuch a Condition, as not to fuffer by being handled. 
PHILO- 
