Letter received by Banks from Patrick Browne, 10 November1789 (Series 72.010) - No. 0004

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Abstract

The Risk was such an [indecipherable] of the securing of the circle that unless it was truely purely mathematical I dare not present it might not the RIA receive it.

if you publish your H.B. & H. Lists on Circle & meet of those who Study Botany as a Science  will do so.  I am sorry Mr H H has not attended to my recommendation.

On Monday, the 16th will be published,
In One Volume, Folio, Price 2l.12s.6d. in Boards,
THE CIVIL and NATURAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA. 
Containing, 1. An Accurate Description of that Island, its situation and soil, with a brief account of its former and present State, Government, Revenues, Produce, and Trade.
2.  An History of the Natural Productions, including the various sorts of native Fossils, perfect and imperfect Vegetables, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, with their properties and Uses in Mechanicks, Diet, and Physick.

By PATRICK BROWNE, M.D.

Illustrated with forty-nine Copper-Plates, in which the most curious productions are represented of their natural sizes, and delineated immediately from their objects, by G. D. EHRET.  There are now added complete Linnæan Indexes, and a large and accurate Map of the Island.

Printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, in Fleet Street.

I will send your Jamaica papers to a german [indecipherable] if you approve.  I have no doubt that [indecipherable] will undertake it.

Mr Browne
Novr. 10, - 89