THE Honourable the Eaſt-India Company, having received from Mr. Samuel Browne, a Phyſician who has liv'd Seventeen Years in their Service at Fort-St George, or Madaras, in the East-Indies, a very conſiderable Collection of dried Speciments or Samples of Plants, Fruits, and Drugs; together with an Account of his Obſervations of the Uſes of them, by the Natives and others of thoſe Parts, both in Phyſick, Dying, &c. have very generouſly and for the Publick Good, preſented them to the Royal Society of London for impreſented them to the Royal Society of London for improving Natural Knowledge: Who conſidering the great Uſe and Improvement may be made of ſuch Collections, have ordered that the Publick ſhall have the Benefit of this Preſent, by receiving the whole Account that came with them, from time to time in theſe Papers, and by taking care that the things themſelves ſhall be preſerved from Corruption in their Repoſitory, where recourſe may be had to them by the curious, ſo ſoon as they are put into ſuch a Condition, as not to ſuffer by being handled.
