Patrick Browne

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Patrick Browne (1720-1790), was an Irish physician and botanist.

[edit] Career

Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, and later went to Antigua to a relation but returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. Browne studied medicine at Rheim, Paris, qualifying in 1742. He later spent time at Leiden University, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and in the West Indies. He was a correspondent of the Botanist Carl Linnaeus, among whose papers were found parts of articles on venereal disease and yaws by Browne.

His major work, 'The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica' (1756), illustrated by the botanic artist George Ehret, contained new names for 104 Genus.

He retired to Rushbrook, near Claremorris, Co. Mayo in 1771.

The standard author abbreviation P.Browne may be used to indicate this person in citing a botanical name.

[edit] References

E.Charles Nelson: Huntia Vol11 no.1 p.5-16, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University.
E. Charles Nelson, Flowers of Mayo, [1]