APPENDIX C 

 THE LEAFLET WHICH SAVED THE GARDEN 



That the Garden is still on its original site is partly, if not 

 entirely, due to the circulation of the following skit. 



Dr. Henry Acland's letter dated November 3, 1875, an d 

 seriously advocating the removal of the Garden to the 

 neighbourhood of the Museum in the University Parks, was 

 published on November 30, 1875. I n tne following month 

 the " skit," signed " Nemo," was circulated, which defeated the 

 plan. 



A friend writes : " I remember dining at Dr. Rolleston's, and 

 he said, * The abominable scheme is done with : whoever 

 wrote the "skit" has crushed it. Once pour ridicule upon 

 a plan, and it is no use bringing it forward.' And it was 

 dropped." 



To the President of the University Removal Co. (Limited) 



OXFORD, 

 MY DEAR SIR, Dec., 1875. 



The close of the year will probably bring before the University 

 your opinion, which I have not heard officially contradicted, that the 

 Oxford rainfall is excessive^ that the planetary theory is not efficient, and 

 that a cataclysm is impending. 



As this opinion seems to me to give an incomplete account of the 

 reasons for the great movement set on foot for completing our institutions 

 in the Parks by moving thereto the Radcliffe Infirmary, I venture to hope 

 you will peruse the following statement, and, if need be, reconsider your 

 conclusion on the planetary theory, if it be such as I hear. 



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