Patrick Browne

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

Career

Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying in 1743. He worked as a physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, visited Barbados, Montserrat, Antigua and St. Kitts in the West Indies and settled as physician in Jamaica in 1746.

He corresponded with the botanist Carl Linnaeus, among whose papers were found fragments of articles on venereal diseases and yaws by Browne.

His major work, The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica (1756), illustrated by the botanic artist Georg Dionysius Ehret contains new names for 104 genera.

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

The standard author abbreviation P.Browne is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

External links

http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/PatrickBrowne.php

References

↑ "Author Query for 'P.Browne'". International Plant Names Index.

Nelson, E. C. Huntia 11 (1): 5-16. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University.
Nelson, E. C., & Walshe, W. F. (1995). Flowers of Mayo.
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National Centre for Biotechnology Information,
The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. In Three Parts. (1756) Archive.org: Full online version, including 50 plates.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 62331540 LCCN: nr91006691 GND: 11763610X

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Name	Browne, Patrick
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Short description	Irish botanist
Date of birth	1720
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Date of death	1790
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