PREFACE 



THE reissue of this account of the OXFORD BOTANIC GARDEN 

 in a revised and enlarged form is due to the fact that neither 

 the guides written by Dr. Daubeny nor the Garden itself 

 are as well known in Oxford as they ought to be. 



To the description of the principal Garden we have added 

 shorter accounts of the most noteworthy plants in the Gardens 

 of the Colleges and of the University Park. 



The first edition of Dr. Daubeny's GUIDE was printed in 

 Oxford and sold in Oxford about sixty years ago, and yet 

 the most diligent search in the library of his College, in the 

 library of the Botanic Garden, in the Bodleian Library, and 

 in other public libraries in Oxford has failed to bring any 

 copy to light. 



Similarly, of the second edition not a single complete copy 

 is forthcoming here. Neither is any edition easily found in 

 the second-hand market ; no bookseller has been able to 

 procure me a copy; one, indeed, doubted the book's existence. 



Though to some extent comprehensible that a sixpenny guide- 

 book may become scarce, that the existence of the Garden 

 as a separate institution should have been forgotten for a long 

 time in the University, even in semi-official publications, is 

 much more unaccountable. 



It was evidently unknown as a University institution to 

 the compilers of the University Calendar during the greater 



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