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lecture. With his hat off, his thin, light hair blowing about 
his face, and his large spectacles on his nose, alternately 
laughing and chatting with the driver, and diving into his 
hat with his huge pocket knife, separating and examining a 
bunch of wild flowers, he naturally attracted attention along 
the road; and, when stopping at a turn-pike gate, the party 
was rather surprised by the evident interest and eagerness of 
the toll-keeper, as he scratched his head and, pointing to Mr. 
Wheeler, exclaimed in his blunt Kentish dialect: ‘‘So ye hae 
got him at last.’’ This was incomprehensible to all the party 
until they arrived at a small inn close to the parish of Barm- 
ing, where they read a placard offering a reward for the eap- 
ture of an escaped lunatic. 
In this connection, we are reminded that the late Dr. W. G. 
Farlow, Professor of Cryptogamie Botany at Harvard, usu- 
ally carried a fish basket instead of a vasculum when botan- 
izing, and when people asked him what he was doing, replied 
that he was geologizing. This was on the theory that how- 
ever great a fool they might think him for hunting minerals, 
it was nothing to be compared to what they would think if 
he were hunting plants. 
In 1899, the Apothecaries, being no longer disposed to main- 
tain the garden out of their corporate funds, applied to the 
Charity Commissioners for a scheme which might provide for 
the relinquishment of their trust. After an inquiry the trus- 
tees offered to provide eight hundred pounds per year and 
the treasury a yearly sum of one hundred pounds out of 
moneys set aside by Parliament. By this scheme the trustees 
of the London Parochial Charities became the trustees of the 
garden and were charged with the eare of the property and 
funds. A newly appointed committee held their first meeting 
May 11, 1899, and selected Mr. William Hayes, M. P., as 
chairman and Sir Owen Roberts as vice-chairman. In the fol- 
lowing July Mr. William Hales, graduate of the Royal Bo- 
tanic Gardens at Kew, was appointed as Curator and, upon the 
advice of Professor Farmer, six thousand pounds was spent in 
rebuilding and modernizing the garden. The buildings were 
completed and formally opened on July 25, 1902, by the 
Right Honorable, the Earl Cadogan, a lineal descendant of 
Sir Hans Sloane. In the first report, issued in 1905, under the 
new management, mention is made of exchanging seeds with 
