Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo in 1720,[1] 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.
[citation needed] 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.
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