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ment for the gardener in the botanical garden had much increased 

 lately, so that there would be full employment for a gardener all 

 the year, the meeting engaged for the full services of Robert 

 Lang, at the wages of £17 a year, with the grass of the college 

 garden, valued at £8, an allowance of £1 for tools, and a house 

 rent free." 



1 May, 1700. — Professor William Hamilton, who died 13 

 March, 1790, directed that his anatomical preparations and 

 apparatus for teaching anatomy and botany should be offered to 

 the university at valuation, as also his hot-house in the botanic 

 garden. In certain eventualities (which did not happen) he 

 directed £200 to be paid to the university, to be laid out in 

 forming a botanical garden. 



" 10 Junt, 1790. — ^The Faculty agree to have Hamilton's hot- 

 house valued, though they have not decided to purchase." 



28 Feb., 1791. — -Hamilton's trustees offer preparations and 

 hot-house to the college for £298 ; college offer £243. 



2 March, 1791. — Trustees decline the offer, and the college 

 adhere to their former decision, but allow the trustees to remove 

 the preparations and hot-house. It appears that the hot- 

 house was purchased by Jeffray, Hamilton's successor, so that 

 it may still have been useful as part of the botanical equipment. 



10 June, 1793. — New insurance policy taken out, in which 

 the chemical laboratory (insured for £250, with £50 for appa. 

 ratus) is described as situated on the west side of the present 

 botanical garden. 



21 May, 1799. — Dr. Jeffray, in London, writes that the 

 business for which he went there would not allow him to 

 return by 1st June, when he intended to open the botany 

 class, and that he proposed to employ Dr. Thomas Brown, 

 as a person qualified and ready to begin and continue 

 the business of his class till he should return. The Principal and 

 Professor Findlay were appointed to converse with Dr. Brown, 

 and if he agree to the measure to order an ad^■crtiscment in the 

 (Glasgow papers that the botany class will be opened on the day 

 Brown shall agree to begin. The Clerk was instructed to write 

 to Jeffray and ask him how long he requests leave of absence, and 

 to state that the Faculty agree to employ Dr. Brown to open the 

 botany class as soon as he tan. The Faculty also wisli to have 



