The John Bargrave Collection
Samuel Browne ( - 22 Sep 1698)
Scottish botanist and a surgeon employed by the East India Company. He was a source of botanical specimens:Browne travelled to Zhou Shan in China and sent back large specimens of Rhus chinensis, the China Sumac tree. James Petiver recorded how it arrived in England still bearing its ripe berries, and was given to [Henry] Compton, who raised several small trees from those berries at Fulham Palace. Like [John] Banister in Virginia, Browne sent back dried plants from India along with information that Petiver was able to incorporate into Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Society" (Willes, 212).
Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/3647 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Browne_(surgeon) Roles: Botanist
Relevant locations: Visited Salavakkam
Workplace or place of business Fort St. George
People linked to person: Samuel Browne was a source of object(s) for Henry Compton (1631/2-1713)
Samuel Browne was a employed by East India Company (1600-)
Samuel Browne was a donor to James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
Samuel Browne was a source of object(s) for James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
John Conway (-fl. c. 1698) was a conveyor of objects from Samuel Browne