title: Patrick Browne M. D. (c. 1720-1790), an Irish doctor in the Caribbean: his residence on Saint Croix (1757-1765) and his unpublished accounts of volcanic activity on Montserrat.
abstract: Patrick Browne resided on the Caribbean islands of Saint Croix (a Danish possession) and Montserrat (an English possession) during the 1750s and 1760s. He collected and recorded the flora of Saint Croix; some of his notes about the plants of the island have survived and are transcribed. On Montserrat he made observations on the active volcano; the surviving manuscript accounts of the sulphur-rich springs are transcribed.
authors.affiliation: Tippitiwitchet Cottage, Wisbech, Norfolk.
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D007494:Ireland; D019021:Natural History / Q000266:history*; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D018707:Volcanic Eruptions / Q000266:history*; D014900:West Indies