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Directors (official title “ Curator ’”’) : 
. Richard Pratt (1677-1680) 
John Watts (1680-1693) 
Samuel Dody (1693-1695) 
Isaac Rand (1720) 
Philip Miller (1722-1770) 
William (7?) Forsyth (1771-1784) 
John Fairbairn (1784-1814) 
William Anderson (1814-1846) 
Robert Fortune (1846-1848 ) 
10. Thomas Moore (1848-1887 ) 
11. William Hales (1899- 
From 1887 to 1899 no one occupied the position of Curator, the 
Garden being conducted by three laborers. Upon the transfer of 
the Garden in 1899, from the Apothecaries Society to the present 
trustees, the London Parochial Charities, the present curator was 
appointed. 
SS ee ee en 
Open daily to students and visitors upon presentation of a ticket 
of admission, to be obtained from the authorities free of charge. 
Source of income: Endowment a ae appropriations by the 
National Government and London University. Library: Refer- 
ence, ee about 400 volumes. Bunion Systematic (Benthan 
& ce r system). The Garden is arral oged SY uaa in 
long eee beds, about 6 ft. wide, and over 200 natural or- 
ders are represented in the open g ere The ee pee 
plants of purely botanical interest for the supply of the various 
types of plant morphology and those of interest historically. 
lication: Seed List. Lectures are given at the Garden, and Be 
material, including flowers, leaves, buds , wild plants, and cultivated 
phanerogams and cryptogams, 1s supplied to the University of 
London, Royal College of Science, and other local ee when 
requested. Affiliations: The Imperial College of Science, South 
Kensington, The University of London, i several Bey tcchpice. 
The laboratory, built in 1902, is chiefly used for research work by 
students of the Imperial College of Boece and the Professor 
of Botany of the college is scientific advisor to the Committee of 
Management. 
DURHAM 
BoTraNIC GARDEN OF THE UNIVERSITY 
Established: About 1923. 
Director: B. M. Griffiths. 
