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thought it best to sift the available material, and to print verbatim the 
statements which seem to be fairly accurate. For official purposes the 
need has often been felt of such a historical account as I have attempted 
to compile. And it is from this point of view extremely о to 
give the exact authority on which any ае ема 
п order to save space in the citation of id es I mui a ате of the 
books from which the information has been 
The Rarities of Richmond: being Exact нн н of the Royal |. 
Hermitage and Merlin's Cave. Second ed. 1736. 
A Morning’s Walk from London to Kew. By Sir Richard Phillips. 
1817. 
Riehmond and its Vicinity. By John Evans, LL.D. Second ed. 
1825. 
Kew and its Gardens. By Frederick Scheer, Esq. 1840. 
The History of Kew. By Edward Simpson. [Privately printed, 
1849.] : 
Wanderi ngs through the Conservatories at Kew. [By Philip Henry 
Gosse, 1856. | 
Records of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [By John Smith. 
Privately printed, 1880. ] 
Kew: t and Present. By Q.C. and Edward Waiford, M.A. 
[ Privately Seated, 1884. Pages 389-424 are reprinted from 
alford’s * Greater London.” | 
The у of the Kew Observatory. Ву Robert Henry Scott, 
M.A., F.R.S., Secretary to the Мооре Council. Proc. R.S. 
Lond., vol, xxxix. (1885), pp. 37-46. 
A Sketch of the Life and Reminiscences of John Rogers. 1889. 
W. T. THISELTON-DYER. 
Earty History. 
Although not one = T oldest institutions, the early — of Tar 
commences with a n Flückiger and nbu aco- 
graphia (2nd. ed.. 1879, s; 767) * the foundation of the Kew Gardens ^ 
is attributed to William Turner, who died in 1568. This idea seems 
to have had its origin in a passage in Pulteney’s “ Historieal and 
Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England” G 5y 
vol. i., p. 63), where the author, in his account of Turner, remarks : 
“ 
The existence of anything like a ` botanic garden at Kew in the 
sixteenth century is certainly a curious coincidence, and the national 
establishment which now exists could not have had a worthier founder 
than “the Father of English Botany.” But unless contiguity to the 
neighbouring pom of Sion (where, aecording to Pulteney (1., ak 
site of his garden at Kew is л ara 
The mention of so remarkable a man in connexion with Kew will 
justify, кате a few words as to his history. He was born at 
M orthumberland, and was educated at the expense of Lord 
| ить, at rri ae a university which has produced a succession 
ME distinguished — botanists. At the University he was — 
