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Note: In 1761 John Hope became King’s Botanist at Holyrood 
and subsequently Professor of Botany and Materia Medica at the 
University. He soon secured the separation of this chair into 
two and, as Professor of Medicine and Botany, he initiated (1776) 
the movement for a new Botanic Garden on the outskirts of the 
City west of Leith Walk, combining the collections at Holyrood 
and the Town Gardens, and obtained from the Crown a per- 
manent endowment for the new Garden. Under J. H. Balfour 
the Garden was transferred to the better site which it now 
occupies. 
By 1823 the growth of the collection necessitated a larger site 
and the Garden was removed to Broompark or Quacaplesink of 
14 acres, part of Innerleith property. Adjacent areas were added 
in 1865 and 1876. The Arboretum was initiated about 1881. 
GLASGOW 
CorPORATION OF GLAsGoWw BoTANIC GARDENS 
Established: 1818. (Royal Charter 1817; opened to the public 
1819. They became public property in 1891). 
Directors: 
William Joseph Hooker (1820-1841) 
John Hutton Balfour (1841-1845) 
Walker-Arnott (1845-1868) 
Alexander Dickson (1868-1879) 
Isaac Bayley Balfour (1879-1884) 
Frederick Orpen Bower (1885-1924) 
James Montagu Frank Drummond (1925-Sept. 30, 1930) 
John Walton (1930-— ) 
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HOLBORN 
(Now part of London) 
The “ botanic garden ” of John Gerard, author of ** The herbal, 
or generall historie of plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde, of 
London.” Ist ed. 1597. (See South Lambeth. ) 
Established near the close of the 16th century. 
Publication: Catalogus arborum, fruticum ac plantarum tam 
indigenarum, quam exoticarum, in horto Johannis Gerardi . . 
