PRINCIPAL GARDENERS—WILLIAM MCNas. 309 
opinion of Sir Joseph Banks and some other distinguished Botanists 
he was entitled to expect when he left the Royal Gardens a more 
advantageous situation. 
n 1810 the late Dr. Rutherford applied to Sir Joseph Banks to 
recommend a proper person to take charge of the Royal Botanic 
ion 
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solely for the benefit of the garden and for which he has at present 
no means of being reimbursed, in entertaining in his own House 
e 
of getting additions of plants and seeds for the garden, which 
the Memorialist can shew have been very considerable within 
these later years as well from the Books which he keeps in. 
ior registering the plants and seeds which are received, 
Ks. In Oxford and Liverpool this is the case. 
= Memorialist has a large family to provide for and he finds 
that on his present income he cannot give his children the education 
Which his situation in life would seem to demand. 
