Natural History Museum

Hortus Siccus 108

A large volume containing a collection of ‘Plants gathered by Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich and Dr Edward Brown’, various of the plant specimens labeled in Sir Thomas's hand, some others labeled in Edward's hand, 117 leaves.

*BrT 55: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

Briefly described in The Sloane Herbarium, ed. J.E. Dandy (London, 1958), p. 99. The volume probably corresponds to the ‘Collection of Plants’ listed as Miscellaneous Papers No. 11 in the Rawlinson ‘Catalogue’ of Browne's MSS printed in Wilkin, IV, 476.