MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 57 
date the activities of the garden gradually increased, and in 
1722 it was formally conveyed by the owner to the Society of 
Apothecaries. The conveyance was made ‘‘That the said 
garden might at all times thereafter be continued as a Physick 
Garden, and for the better encouraging and enabling the said 
Society to support the charge thereof, for the manifestation 
of the power, wisdom, and glory of God in the works of crea- 
tion, and that their apprentices and others might better dis- 
tinguish good and useful plants from those that bore resem- 
blance to them, and yet were hurtful, and other the like good 
purposes.’’ This is strangely reminiscent of the terms of 
Henry Shaw’s bequest of $200 to the Bishop of the Episcopal 
Church for an annual sermon ‘‘on the wisdom and goodness 
of God as shown in the growth of plants, fruits, and other 
products of the vegetable kingdom.’’ Sloane further provided 
that if certain conditions were not fulfilled, such as “present- 
ing fifty specimens each year of distinct plants, well dried and 
preserved,’’ to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society 
of London, the property should pass to the Royal Society and 
if it refused to assume the obligation the garden was to go to 
the President and College of Physicians. The Apothecaries 
now having complete control of the garden, Philip Miller was 
appointed head gardener and in 1730 he published the first 
official list of cultivated plants in the Chelsea Garden, entitled 
‘‘Catalogus Plantarum Officinalium, quae in Horto Botanico 
Chelseyano aluntur.’’ This list was written in Latin with the 
appended English name. The arrangement followed that of 
Ray and was compiled under two divisions, Herbs and Under- 
shrubs, and Trees and Shrubs. The first section included 405 
plants and the second 94. 
In 1782 the society spent two thousand pounds on green- 
houses and in the following year erected a monument to Sir 
Hans Sloane, this statue by Rysbrach now occupying a central 
site in the garden. 
A notable event of this period was a visit to the garden by 
the distinguished botanist Linnaeus. The high esteem in which 
the Chelsea garden was held by the scientific men of foreign 
countries is attested by the fact that Linnaeus mentions only 
those at Chelsea and Oxford. In his diary he states: ‘‘ Miller 
of Chelsea permitted me to collect many plants in the garden, 
and gave me several dried specimens collected in South Amer- 
