> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 371](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120502) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1201-1) LSID 1201-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15480) QID Q15480 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Browne, Patrick (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Browne, Patrick (1720-1790), Irish naturalist and physician, explorer of Jamaica. **Abbreviated name**: *P. Br.* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.Browne*\] #### Herbarium and types Browne sold his Jamaican herbarium to Linnaeus in 1758 through Collinson. It is now at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. – 103 original drawings of Jamaican plants by Ehret are at [[Collection BM|BM]]. – Other Browne specimens are at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (with the Thunberg herbarium) and S. Manuscripts at [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. *Ref*.: BB p. 50; IH 2: 102; Jackson, Index to the Linnaean herbarium 16-11. 1922; Lasègue p. 488. - Lindman, Ark. Bot. 7(3): 15. 1907. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 18-28. 1898, 3: 29. 1912. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 265; BB p. 50; BM 1: 262; Dawson p. 176, 544, 868; DNB 7: 53; Jackson p. 370; Kew 1: 398; KR 107; Lasègue p. 488; LS 4179; PR 1253; SO 636, 637, 1987, 2538. - Lambert, Trans. Linn. Soc. 4: 31-34. 1798. - Anon., Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 414. 1811. - J., Dict. Sci. med., Biogr. méd. 3: 6-7. 1821. - Smith, Corresp. Linnaeus 1: 39, 42-44. 1821. - Ehret, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1894/5: 55. 1896. - Prain, J. Bot. 40: 139. 1902. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 18-28. 1898, 3: 29. 1902. - Hulth, Bref och Skr. Linné ser. 2. 1: 339-362. 1916. - Anon., J. Bot. 58: 276. 1920. - Britten, J. Bot. 62: 351. 1924. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 85. 1936. - Fick and Stearns, Mark Catesby 66, 82, 108. 1961. - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr Alexander Garden 372. 1969. - Miller, Taxon 19: 517. 1970. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 180, 186, 202-203. 1971. #### Eponymy *Brownea* N. J. Jacquin (1760, "*Brownaed*"); corr. J. A. Murray (1774, *nom*. et *orth. cons.*); *Browneopsis* Huber. (1906). *Note*: For other eponyms based on the stem Brown-, cf. supra, sub N. E. and R. Brown. ### Publications ##### n.842. The civil and natural history of Jamaica in three parts **Title** *The civil and natural history of Jamaica in three parts*. Containing, I. An accurate Description of that Island, its Situation and Soil; with a brief Account of its former and present State, Government, Revenues, Produce and Trade. IL A History of the natural Productions, including the various Sorts of native Fossils; perfect and imperfect Vegetables; Quadrupedes, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects; with their Properties and Uses in Mechanics, Diet, and Physic. III. An Account of the Nature of Climates in general, and their different Effects upon the human Body; with a Detail of the Diseases arising from this Source, particularly within the Tropics. In Three Dissertations. The Whole illustrated with Fifty Copper-Plates: In which the most curious Productions are represented of the natural Size, and delineated immediately from the Objects. London (author) 1756. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Civ. nat. hist. Jamaica*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 10 Mar 1756, map, \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[2, catal. auth.), \[1\]-503, *pl. 1-49*, uncoloured copper engr. *Copy*: MICH. – P. Browne wrote to Linnaeus on 11 Mar 1756 (Hulth 1918): "Yesterday it was at length published, and I sent a copy inscribed with your name to the booksellers..." (translation H. W. Rickett). The Monthly Review (15: 30-43. Jul 1756, 15: 333-344. Oct 1756) mentions publication of the first edition in three parts; the Critical Rev. of Jun 1756 (165): 389-409. Jun 1756) also mentions three parts. According to present evidence these three parts must have come out almost simultaneously. New generic names mostly validly published because monotypic or because of special (typographically distinct) descriptions under the first species. For binomials see ed. 2, London 1789. add. index 1; and also the index to Richter's Codex (TL1: 1882) which often cites the first binomials given to Browne's species. The plates are by G. D. Ehret (1708-1770). *Ed. 2*: 1789, p. \[i\*-iv\*\], map, \[i\]-viii, 1-503, *pl. 1-49*, four additional indexes \[1-46\], catal. auth. \[47-48\]. London (B. White and Son) 1789. Fol. *Copy*: NY. Title: "The civil... \[end of II:\] physic. By Patrick Browne, M.D. Illustrated with forty-nine copper-plates in which the most curious productions are represented of their natural sizes, and delineated immediately from the objects, by George Dionysius Ehret. There are now added complete Linnaean indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island." The plates of the second edition were re-engraved and are reversed with the Linnaean binomials added. *Ref*.: BM 1: 262; DA 1967; DU 57; GF p. 52; Jackson p. 370; Kew 1: 398; LS 4179; NI 255; Plesch p. 159-160 (1789 ed.); PR 1253; RS p. 76; SA 2: 545; IDC 1272. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 18-28. 1898, 3: 29. 1902. - Rendle, J. Bot. 50: 129. 1912. - Hulth \[ed.\], Bref och Skr. Linné ser. 2. 1: 341. 1916 (letter 11 Mar 1756). - Hallier, Meded. Rijks-Herb. 36: 1-6. 1918. - Wilmott, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1935: 90. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 202-203. 1971.