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“His manner is to take a whole bed, four yards long and one 
broad, and to discourse of the nature and quality of every herb 
and plant growing therein, which he points out with his staff when 
he begins to speak there of.” 
Clusius is said to have been the first professor of botany to do 
planting in the Leiden garden, which contained more than 1000 
species and varieties in September 1594. Of these, one tree, a 
Laburnum, still standing in 1935, had a circumference of 16 feet 
4 inches at the base and a height of 57 feet. 
ROTTERDAM 
BoTANICAL SECTION OF THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN 
Seed List (1937). 
URRE CET 
Hortus BoTanicus 
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Established: End of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century. 
Area: 1 hectare. 
Directors: 
1. Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma (d. 1859) 
2. Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1861-1871) 
3. Nicolaas Willem Pieter Rauwenhoff (1871-1896) 
. Frederich August Ferdinand Christian Went Gere? 
. Victor Jacob Koningsberger (1934 ) 
Ope free to the public daily from 9am_—4 or 5 p.m. Source 
of income: Annual appropriations by the national government. 
Lib ee About 8500 volumes (periodical volumes included), and 
about 3000 peeestiets The Library of the Herbarium is com- 
bined with that of the Laboratory and garden. Herbarium: The 
Herbarium, established by Miquel (1861- “1871), has about 200,000 
specimens. It forms a distinct department together with the Bo- 
tanical Museum under the directorship of the Professor of Syste- 
herbarium receives an independent appropriation from the gOv- 
ernment. Publications: Mededeelingen van het Botanisch Mu- 
seum en Herbarium. Catalogue des Graines. Plantations: Sys- 
tematic, with a small rockery. Spear under glass: 3500. 
Herbaceous plants out-of-doors: 1000 species. Affiliations: The 
Garden, together with the Botanical epereiory, is a department 
of the Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht. All instruction is given 
botanical staff of the University. There is a director for both the 
