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exertions. He advanced 700 to the College of 

 Physicians, which ne allowed to be paid off by 

 instalments ; and in 1721, he made the same 

 society a present of 100* The same year, 

 (having become lord of the manor of Chelsea, by 

 purchase, in 1712,) he gave to the Company of 

 Apothecaries the freehold of their botanical 

 garden there, upon the sole condition, that they 

 should present yearly to the Royal Society, fifty 

 new plants, grown in the garden, till the number 

 should amount to 2000, and pay a quit rent of 

 5 per annum, which was cheerfully accepted ; and 

 the number, of course, was completed in the year 

 1761, but the practice was continued till 1773, at 

 which time 2550 were completed. Catalogues 

 of them were published annually in the Philoso- 

 phical Transactions, Sir Hans also contributed 

 largely towards the expenses of the hot-houses and 

 other necessary erections. In testimony of their 

 respect for him, the Company, in 1733, erected 

 in the centre of the garden, a marble statue 

 executed by Rysbrach, representing him in a full 

 bottomed wig and doctor's gown. On the 

 pedestal is a Latin inscription, commemorating 

 his donation, and the design and advantage of it.* 



* Hansio Sloane, Baronetto. Matro Insignissimo 

 Botanices Fautori, Hoc honoris c Monumentum Inque 

 perpetuum ejus Memoriam Sacrum voluit Societas Phar- 

 macopeiorum, Londinensis, 1733. 



