(327) 
The general interest apparently indicated by the wide sup- 
port of Dr. Hosack’s petition, led Dr. Mitchill in June, 1810, 
to open a course of popular botanical lectures at 12 Magazine 
(Pearl) Street; but though, as he says, ‘‘they were carefully 
arranged and well advertised, there was but a slight attend- 
ance — 15, 10, 4, and 9 persons at the first four lectures re- 
spectively, without a single course ticket sold, or a pupil 
engaged”; and the course was then abandoned. (Letter of 
Dr. M., June 19, 1810, in ‘* Exposition etc. of Phys. and S.” 
21-23. 1812.) 
UNDER THE REGENTS AND THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS 
AND SURGEONS, I18II TO 1816. 
The Act of 1810 provided for the management of the 
Garden as follows: (Sect. VII.) 
‘The Regents shall from time to time make such orders 
and regulations relative to the keeping, mazntaining and pre- 
serving the said botanical garden and the use and employ- 
ment thereof for the denept of the Medical Schools of this 
State as they shall judge most conducive to the public good; 
and they are hereby directed Zo make such regulations and 
take such measures for the support of said establishment, that 
it shall be attended with no future charge or expense to the 
State; Arovided that physicians and medical students shall 
at all times have access to it free from any expense; and 
provided that the People of this State shall have the right at 
all times to sell and dispose of said property in ae way and 
for such purposes as they may deem expedien 
The regents being thus forbidden to incur any expense to 
the State, committed the garden in May 1811 to the manage- 
ment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
“‘to be kept and preserved in a condition fit for all medical 
purposes and open to medical students.” 
Up to that time Dr. Hosack had continued to pay the garden 
expenses, ¢ and the medical students of both colleges had en- 
joyed the privileges of the a in botanical instruction. t 
* Am. Med. and Phil. 243 3:242; 4:117. 1811-1814; Regents’ 
Rept., 1811, 1812. Notice a Ael in Medical Repos., 14: 373. 1811. 
+ Regents’ Rept., January 12, 1812 
t Rept. to Regents by Col. se and S., 1808. 
