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Open free to the public on all weekdays from " a.m. until dusk. 
Plant houses open only during the afternoon. T arden is open 
on Sundays to members of the Senate of the Dae on pay- 
ment of ten shillings a year, and to non-members of the Univer- 
sity on payment of £1 a year. The University reserves its private 
rights in the Garden by closing it to the public one day in the year. 
Plantations: Systematic, arboretum, fruticetum. Publications: In- 
dex seminum ex horto Cantabrigensis Academiae ad mutuam com- 
mutationem propositoriim 
The botanical library, museum, and University Herbarium are 
located in, and form part of, the Botanical Department of the Uni- 
versity ( ‘Botany School) fede: the direction of the Professor of 
Botany. 
lies 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 four “ pits” and one plant house not open to the public. 
In addition to the plantations mentioned above there are a Rock 
Garden and Bog and Water Gardens. There is a special collection 
of Bamboos. ‘The plants in the entire garden 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, 
Cones of (1) the Governors of the Botanic Garden (viz. the 
e-Chancellor of the University, the Masters of Trinity and St. 
lone Colleges, the Provost of King’s College, a ees Pro- 
fessor of Physics, and the Professor of Botany, a officio, an 
(2) six additional syndics, each appointed for feng 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 (1e. 
resolution of the Senate 
The Botanic Gar teh Syndicate meets once a year, when a report 
is made to the Senate. is published in the University Re- 
porter. There is also an pee Committee which meets at 
least three times a year to discuss the working and management 
of the Garden. : 
CHELSEA (LONDON) 
CHELSEA PHysIc GARDEN 
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 3, England 
Established: 1673. Area: 3% acres. 
