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166 The Floral King.
Linnzus. Brown practised as physician in the
island of Jamaica, where he made great and valuable
collections in objects of Natural History, regarding
which he published: “ Civil and Natural History of
Jamaica, and its natural productions, fossils, vege-
tables and animals.” London, 1756. From Linnzus’
own diary it is evident that through purchase he be-
came the possessor of this; he also wrote in July
1758, to his friend Abr. Back: “At last I have got
Dr. Brown’s Herbarium Famaicense, which I have
expected so long. It consists of 1000 rare plants.
I cannot sufficiently express my surprise that any
Englishman should allow such an excellent American
collection of the rarest plants to leave his country
for 100 platar. How busy I am now, you, my dear
friend, can easily imagine. Here I find all those
plants which I had got a glance at in Rolander’s
collection, and all which our dear departed Léfling
described. This gives me so much to do, that I
forget friends, relatives, home and country. I am
now glad that Salvius did not sooner get paper to
the second volume of the System.”
In Linnzeus’ autobiographical note of 29th June,
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