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Source ep income: Chiefly University grant. Plantations: Sys- 
tematic. Arboretum. Fruticetum. Publications: Delectus semi- 
num ex horto Cantabrigensis Academiae ad mutuam commuta- 
tionem propositorum. 
The botanical library, museum, and University Herbarium are 
located in, and form part of, the Botanical Department of the Uni- 
versity ( Botany School) under the direction of the Professor of 
Botany. 
Supplies the great bulk of the material used for teaching (ap- 
proximately 100,000 specimens per year), and a large proportion 
of that used for research in the Botany Schoo 
Material of all kinds for study is sold to local schools. The 
plant houses consist of eleven houses open to the public. There 
are also “pits? and one plant house not open to the public. 
In addition to the Bie iatlotis mentioned above there are a Roc 
Garden and Bog and Water Gardens. There is a special collection 
of Bamboos. The plants in the entire aaa are arranged accord- 
ing to the natural system of De Candolle. 
Affiliations: The Cambridge Botanic Garden belongs to the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge and is a department of the Botany School. 
It is governed for the University by the Botanic Garden Syndicate, 
see of (1) the Governors of the Botanic Garden (viz. the 
e-Chancellor of the University, the Masters of Trinity and St. 
ines Colleges, the Provost of King’s College, the Regius Pro- 
fessor of Physics, and the Professor of Botany, all ex officio, an 
(2) six additional syndics, each appointed for two years, from 
among the resident members of the Senate (i.e. the whole body 
of Masters of Arts and other higher graduates of the University 
having their names on the University Registrar) by Grace (i.e. 
resolution of the 
The Botanic ene Syndicate meets once a year, when a report 
least three times a year to discuss the working and management 
of the Garden. . 
CHELSEA (LONDON) 
CHELSEA Puysic GARDEN 
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 3, England 
Established: 1673. Area: 3% acres. 
Directors (official title “ Curator’) : 
1. Richard Pratt (1677-1680) 
2. John Watts (1680-1693) 
3. Samuel Doody (1693-1695) 
