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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 60. | DECEMBER. [ 1891. 
CCXXII— HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF KEW TO 1841. 
On the Ist of April 1841 Sir William Hooker, who eed n: 
been Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Gla com 
menced his duties as Director of icu. he year 1891 therefore ‘marks 
the jubilee of the establishment as a national institution. 
It appeared to me that the occasion might appropriately be marked 
by giving some a Mon in the pages of the Kew Bulletin of the origin 
and development of the Royal Gardens as a place of botanical study. 
Th 
possession of the Crown. I have therefore had to fall back on local 
tradition, on local histories, the statements in which are often confusing 
and inaecurate, and on such scattered notices as could be gathered from 
contemporary literature. 
The present account only goes as ~ as AK The history of the 
last er century will be given in another 
I am quite aware that what I have ав 15 5 open to the criticism 
that it sight have been stated with greater brevity. But I have 
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