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EDINBURGH 
RoyaL Botanic GARDEN 
Edinburgh, 4, Scot 
Established: 1670. Area: 60 acres, 3 roods, 5 poles. 
Directors (official title, Regius Keeper) : 
James Sutherland (1699-1714) 
William Arthur (1715-1716) 
Charles Alston (1717-1760) 
John Hope (1761-1786) 
Daniel Rutherford (1787-1819) 
Robert Graham (1820-1845) 
John Hutton Balfour (1846-1880) 
. Alexander Dickson (1881-1887) 
. Isaac Bayley Balfour (1888-1922 
10. William Wright Smith (1923- ) 
Serves as a public park. Open free, daily, from 9 a.m. on week- 
days, and from 11 a.m. on Sundays, until sunset. Plant houses 
are open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., or until sunset if this be earlier. 
Source of income: One of three gardens maintained in the state 
by the United Kingdom. (The other two are the Royal Gardens 
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CANAW EWN 
Over 60,000 volumes. The leading botanical and horticultural 
periodicals are taken. Herbarium: Contains a fair representation 
of the Floras of the world. Specially rich in Asiatic Floras. 
Plantations: Arboretum, Woodland Garden, Rock Garden, Rho- 
dodendrons, Systematic (Herbaceous garden and_ herbaceous 
border. Bentham and Hooker, Genera Plantarum). Publica- 
tions: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh—a brief descriptive and 
illustrated account. Map, Key, Plan and Index to the Royal 
3otanic Garden. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh with Key 
a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Sundays from 1 p.m. until sunset. Lec- 
tures: The Regius Keeper, from time to time, gives lectures which 
are open to the public. Supply material: Specimens for private 
study are supplied, as far as the resources of the Garden will per- 
mit, to visitors and students who make written application to the 
Regius Keeper. Application forms may be obtained at the office 
of the garden. Affiliations: For more than a century and a half 
the offices of Regius Keeper of the Botanic Garden and Professor 
