Samuel Browne

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Samuel Browne († September 22, 1698 in Fort St. George ) was a doctor for the British East India Company in Madras, India . His botanical observations in the Madras area were published by James Petiver in the Philosophical Transactions .

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Samuel Browne was initially a doctor on the ship Dragon . On May 7, 1688 he was appointed as the successor to the late John Heathfiled (* October 6, 1623, † April 2, 1688) doctor of the British East India Company in Madras. In June 1688 he married Ann Baker. On August 30, 1693, he accidentally poisoned councilor James Wheeler with a drug contaminated with arsenic . On November 30, 1697, Browne was released from service. An offer made to him on January 13, 1698 to take up the position as a doctor in Chutanuti , he refuses. With effect from August 11, 1698, Browne was "Assay Master" of Madras.

Samuel Browne corresponded with James Petiver , who published his seven Books of East India Plants, with Their Names, Vertues, Description in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . Through him Georg Joseph Kamel , to whom Browne wrote for the first time in 1696, also came into contact with Petiver. After Petiver's death, Hans Sloane acquired his extensive collection and with it Browne's material. It is now part of the Natural History Museum of London located Sloane Herbarium .

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  • An Account of Some Indian Plants, etc. with Their Names, Descriptions and Vertues; Communicated in a Letter from Mr. James Petiver, Apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society; to Mr. Samuel Brown, Surgeon at Fort St. George . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 20, number 244, 1698 pp. 313-335 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1698.0068 ).
  • An Account of Part of a Collection of Curious Plants and Drugs, Lately Given to the Royal Society by the East India Company . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 22, number 264, 1700, pp. 579-594 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1700.0032 ).
  • To Account of Mr Sam. Brown His Second Book of East India Plants, with Their Names, Vertues, Description, etc. By James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 22, number 267, 1700, pp. 699-721 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1700.0057 ).
  • To Account of Mr Sam. Brown, his Third Book of East India Plants, with Their Names, Vertues, Description, & c. By James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. To Which Are Added Some Animals Sent Him from Those Parts . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 22, number 271, 1701, pp. 843-862 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1700.0086 ).
  • A Description of Some Shells Found on the Molucca Islands; as So to Account of Mr Sam. Brown, his Fourth Book of East India Plants, with Their Names, Vertues, etc. By James Petiver, Apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 22, number 274, 1701, pp. 927-946 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1700.0099 ).
  • To Account of Mr Sam. Brown his Fifth Book of East India Plants, with Their Names, Vertues, Description, & c by James Petiver, Apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society. To Which Are Added Some Animals Sent Him from Those Parts . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 22, number 276, 1701, pp. 1007-1029 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1700.0110 ).
  • To Account of Mr. Sam. Brown His Sixth Book of East India Plants, with Their Names, Vertues, Description, etc. By James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. To These are Added Some Animals, etc. Which the Reverend Father George Joseph Camel, Very Lately Sent Him from the Philippine Isles . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 23, number 277, 1702, pp. 1055-1068 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1702.0003 ).
  • Mr. Sam. Brown His Seventh Book of East India Plants, with an Account of Their Names, Vertues, Description, etc. By James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. These Plants Were Gathered between the 15th and 20th of June, AD 1696. in the Ways between Fort St George and Trippetee, which is about 70 Miles off . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 23, number 282, 1702, pp. 1251-1566 ( DOI: 10.1098 / rstl.1702.0033 ).

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literature

  • DG Crawford: Roll of the Indian medical service 1615-1930 . W. Thacker & Co, London 1930.
  • BD Jackson, PE Kell: Browne, Samuel (d.1698) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004, ( DOI: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 3647 ).
  • Henry Davison Love: Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800. Traced from the East India company's records preserved at Fort St. George and the India office, and from other sources . Volume 1, J. Murray, London 1913, p. 565, p. 580 and p. 582.
  • Raquel AG Reyes: Botany and zoology in the late seventeenth-century Philippines: the work of Georg Josef Camel, SJ (1661-1706) . In: Archives of Natural History . Volume 36, Number 2, 2009, pp. 262-276 ( doi : 10.3366 / E0260954109000989 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fanny Emily Penny: Fort St. George, Madras; a short history of our first possession in India . S. Sonnenschein, London 1900, pp. 190-191 ( online ).
  2. ^ Henry Davison Love: Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800. Traced from the East India company's records preserved at Fort St. George and the India office, and from other sources . Volume 1, 1913, p. 565
  3. ^ Raquel AG Reyes: Botany and zoology in the late seventeenth-century Philippines: the work of Georg Josef Camel, SJ (1661-1706) . 2009, p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Browne, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British East India Company doctor in Madras
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1698
Place of death Fort St. George , Madras