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It may have been this trace of hot temper 

 which made Linnaeus give the name " Randia " 

 to a genus of tropical plants. It was Linnaeus' 

 way ! 



Rand published the map of the Garden at 

 the end of this volume. 



Money was now freely spent by the Apothe- 

 caries on a Garden they owned. A yearly tax 

 of six shillings a head was levied on all members 

 of the Society ; forty pounds were given from 

 corporate funds willingly, no doubt, for they 

 had just sold every penny of their South Sea 

 stock. Sir Hans Sloane gave a hundred pounds 

 towards the repair of the river stairs, and it 

 was probably at his suggestion that the College 

 of Physicians, of which he was President, 

 contributed another hundred. Sir Hans was a 

 peacemaker, for the College of Physicians, the 

 Surgeons' Company, and the Apothecaries' 

 Company were not always in harmony. 



The Garden wharf was now thought un- 

 worthy of the new landlords, so a thousand 

 pounds were borrowed to build a new one. 

 Then Miller, keen gardener, found that he 

 could not do justice to the new tropical plants 

 without more " glass." 



Two hot-houses and a greenhouse were built 

 for him, and finished in 1732, and Sir Hans 

 Sloane came from Bloomsbury to lay the 

 foundation stones as the inscription on the 

 present greenhouse relates. 



Then came the reckoning one thousand 

 eight hundred pounds an unexpected bill 

 to be again met by generous subscribers and the 

 Society's Corporate Funds. 



