98 THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN 



Parochial Charities, and one each by the 

 Treasury, Lord President of the Council, 

 London County Council, Royal Society, Phar- 

 maceutical Society, London University, College 

 of Physicians, and Apothecaries' Society. Lord 

 Cadogan, as the representative of Sir Hans 

 Sloane, also has a seat on it. 



The first Committee meeting was held in 

 1899, Mr. W. Hayes Fisher (afterwards Lord 

 Downham) in the chair, and Mr. William Hales 

 from Kew Gardens was appointed curator. 



A narrow strip of the Garden, involving the 

 wall and buildings on the north boundary, 

 was then sold to the Chelsea Vestry for 2,000, 

 to allow a widening of the Royal Hospital Road. 

 This sum, together with 4,050, borrowed by 

 the trustees, was spent on building the present 

 curator's house, lecture room, laboratory, 

 greenhouse and pits. Rules were drawn up 

 under Professor Farmer's advice for the admis- 

 sion of teachers and students. The new 

 buildings were opened in 1902. 



The doors of three greenhouses, kept at 

 different temperatures, are made to open into a 

 glass corridor, so that the plants are not liable 

 to a chill from a draught of cold air in winter. 

 In the Garden itself there has been continual 

 improvement. Most of the borders are narrow, 

 and set in parallel rows, like printed columns of 

 type ; and the plants are arranged according to 

 their places in the latest botanical classification 

 pages, in fact, in a living book ot botany. 



Genuine students (there are nearly 3,000 

 attendances a year) are admitted by ticket. 

 Cut specimens of plants are sent to the Imperial 



