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and horticulture. No regular herbarium. Plantations: Arbore- 
rbaceous plants arranged in nat- 
ural orders in students’ garden; elsewhere arranged for ornament. 
Pp 
cies under glass: Varied collection. Publications: Masterly Sum- 
mary, succeeding the Botanical Journal of the Royal Botanic So- 
red 1 
ciety. Issued quarterly; 0 in exchange; subscription, 1 shil- 
ling. Discontinued. Musewm: Open free to all visitors to the 
gardens from 9 a.m. t Contained important collection of 
wide. Total area under glass was about 33,000 square feet. 
is said (Nature 110. 185-187. Aug. 5, 1922) to be “the first 
large iron house built in England, the palm-house at Kew being 
constructed later.” 
‘ OXFORD 
Oxrorb UNIVERSITY BoTANIC GARDEN 
Department of Botany, Oxford University, Oxford, England 
Established: 1621 (By the Earl of Danby). Area: 5 acres. 
Directors (Professors) : Custodians: 
(John Tradescant, Jr.,  ap- 
pointed, but never took office 
on account of his death in 
1637 or 1638) 
1. Robert Morison (1669- Jacob Bobart, Sr. (1632-1679) : 
1683) 
2. Jacob Bobart, Jr. (1683- Tilleman Bobart ? 
1719) 
3. Edward Sandys (1720- 
1724) 
4. Gilbert Trowe (1724-1734) 
