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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Beowne (Sir Thomas), 1605-82 
Sir Thomas Browne, M.D., famous as the author of 
Pseudodoxia Epidemica and other well-known works, was born 
in London, October 19, 1605, and educated at Winchester 
School and Oxford University, where he was incorporated 
Doctor of Physic in 1637, having four years earlier, however, 
taken the same degree in Leyden. He appears to have taken 
up his residence at Norwich in 1636, where he was knighted 
by Charles II. in 1671, and where he died October 19, 1682. 
His more famous works were first published in his life- 
time, but his notes and letters to Christopher Merrett on 
the natural history of Norfolk lay unpublished among his 
MS. collections in the Sloane Collection (now in the British 
Museum) until 1835, when they were first included by 
Wilkins in an edition of Sir Thomas Browne’s works, being, 
however, first printed separately and in extenso by Thomas 
Southwell in 1902. 
These notes are not only of great interest from their early 
date and relation with the county of Norfolk, but also as 
forming one of the sources from which Merrett compiled his 
list of British birds printed in the Pinax (1666-67). Browne 
was also a correspondent of Willughby and Ray, and most of 
the other learned men of his day. A Life by Southwell is pre- 
fixed to the edition of 1902 quoted below. 
1835-36. Natural History of the County of Norfolk. [In Wilkins’ edition 
of Sir Thomas Browne’s Works.] 4 vols. 8vo. (Vol I., 1836 ; 
Yols. II.-IV., 1835.) 
Idem. Another edit, of the same in Bohn’s Library. 3 vols. 
post 8vo. London : 1851-52. 
1902. Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk ; more especially 
on the Birds, from the MSS. of Sir Thomas Browne, M.D. (1605- 
1682). In the Sloane Collection in the Library of the British 
Museum and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with notes by 
Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., etc. London (Jarrold) : 1902. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxvi + pp. 102, facsimile front. 
