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the admission of persons to whom the Garden may seem likely to 

 be a source of interest or improvement. 

 IV. Specimens of Flowers, &c., may be obtained from the Curator ; but 



it is requested that none will be plucked without special leave. 

 V. The Conservatories, Hothouses and other parts of the Garden 

 which are kept locked, may be visited by applying to the Curator. 



VI. The Library of the Botanic Garden may be consulted during week- 



days, by Members of the University, and others known or 

 introduced to the Professor, from Twelve to Four o'clock ; the 

 Portress, who has keys of the cases, being directed to take down 

 such books as may be required, and to see them replaced on the 

 shelves afterwards. 



VII. It is requested that, to prevent abuse, every person who avails 

 himself of this permission, will enter his name, the place of his 

 abode, the date of the year, and the title of the volumes which he 

 consults, in a book kept for the purpose in the Library. 



By 1850 Regulations VI. and VII. had been combined, the 

 Library hours being extended first to 4 p.m. and then to 

 5 p.m., the Gardener was given the duties of the Curator, 

 and a new Regulation VII. was promulgated : 



VII. The Herbarium may be consulted under similar regulations by 



application to Mr. Baxter, Sen., who is in attendance at the 

 Garden from 9 till 5 o'clock. (May 1st, 1850.) 



In 1853 the Fielding Herbarium arrived, and Regulation VII. 

 was altered so as to read : 



VII. The Herbaria may be consulted by Members of the University, 

 between the hours of Twelve and Five every week-day during Term, 

 and whenever the Sub-Curator is in attendance, in the Vacations. 

 Other persons desirous of examining this Collection are requested 

 to apply for permission to the PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, or to 

 either of the other Curators. 



On April 3, 1851, the Garden Committee made an order 

 that the unpopular fee of one shilling should be demanded 

 of those who visited the Green-houses ; and in 1856 the writer 

 of a leaflet signed "B.D." made this an excuse for opposing the 

 Garden grant in Convocation. 



Under the present arrangements the Garden is open on 



