Appendix C — [Sloane Ms. Additional 5233, Large Folio, Is a Volume Labelled “Dr. Edw. Brown’s Drawings.”]
“Some original drawing of Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Medals &c. by Dr. Edward Browne in his Travels & presented by his Father Sir Thomas Browne. Who hath write upon sevll of them what they are.”
The above is the inscription written on the fly-leaf of this volume, which I hoped might have contained some drawings of birds or fishes by Sir Thomas Browne, but there is nothing in it of interest from a Natural History point of view. In Wilkin’s Catalogue of the MSS. (Vol. iv., p. 476) it is described as “a collection of very curious drawings (some coloured) of public buildings, habits, fishes, mines, rocks, tombs, and other antiquities, observed by Sir Thos. and Dr. Edward Browne in their travels,” but there are no fishes, birds, or other animals in the volume.
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