Patrick Browne (1720–1790) was an Irish

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and botanist.

Career

Browne was born in Woodstock,

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in 1720, sent to relatives on

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in 1737 and returned to

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due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at

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, and Leyden, qualifying in 1743. He worked as a physician at

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, London, visited

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, Montserrat,

, and

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in the

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and settled as physician in

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in 1746. He corresponded with the botanist

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, among whose papers were found fragments of articles on venereal diseases and

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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

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.Patrick Browne author, 1756 - Climatoloy, Medical - 503 pages He retired to Rushbrook, near

Claremorris Claremorris (; ) is a town in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, at the junction of the N17 and the N60 national routes. It is the fastest growing town in the county. There was a 31% increase in the town's population between 2006 and 2011 an ...

in 1771.

References

Other sources

* Nelson, E. C. ''

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'' 11 (1): 5-16. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University. * Nelson, E. C., & Walshe, W. F. (1995). ''Flowers of Mayo''

Ricorso
* National Centre for Biotechnology Information

* ''The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. In Three Parts.'' (1756

Archive.org: Full online version, including 50 plates.

External links

* http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/PatrickBrowne.php 1720 births 1790 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations 18th-century Irish botanists People from County Mayo 18th-century Irish medical doctors Botanists active in the Caribbean {{Ireland-med-bio-stub