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HERBARIUM AND LiBRARY. 
One of Sir Joseph Banks's schemes was to a a Pgh and 
library at Kew. Scheer (p. 50), speaking of Bauer, says :— 
* To some of his performances we have had occasion ptm ed to allude ; those 
which he accomplished during the life-time of Sir Joseph Banks were, by the will of 
the latter, € in the British Museum ; and ‘Gad the plan of Sir J otetih, 
h eagerly entered into by George IV., for establishing a Botanical 
useum » vom , has ed ам, but for which originally the house now in the 
sema of the King of Hanover was purchased; we trust that whatever now 
mains in Kew of Mr. Bauer's Arami s will be in due time carefully added to the 
Жаман already laid upin that National Storehouse of Arts and Sciences.’ 
According to Scheer (p. 11),— 
“Sir Peter Lely pnrchased a house at Kew, to which, during the latter part of 
his life, he frequently retired ; it stood so Sanka iy ig the ground now belonging to 
the mansion of His Majesty the Ki ing of Hano 
Q. C. (p. 3) says the latter was built on the site of Sir Peter Lely’s 
house. But this is impro ee le. 
This is now the Herbari x tope of the Royal Gardens. The 
latter ati the ient та he former an addition to the north. 
Sir Peter Lely’s house Spb aby: stood to the west and no trace of it 
remains. The herbarium house was originally known as Hunter House, 
having been the property of Robert Hunter (Smith, Records, vii), who is 
traditionally reported to have been a friend of the elder Aiton’s, and 
having succeeded in business, to have settled at Kew. It was built 
anterior to 1771, as it appears in a copy of SA: dn plan of that date 
lent by Her Majesty the Queen to the Kew Museum. It is believed to 
have been purchased for the King in 1818 at the instigation of Sir Joseph 
Banks for the purpose to which it is now dedicated. A room on the 
ground floor was fitted (1820) with боскае [Kew Report, 1875, 
p. 2], which nm till 1877, A were apparently not used at t the 
ks e King both died in 1820, and the library 
and herbarium of y^ Рани were ‘Sedat to the British Museum, 
of the Botanical Department of which they became the founda tion. 
Ban pears to have been allowed to retain the botanical specimens 
brought home by the Kew collectors. The bulk of that part of their 
labours is therefore to be found in the British Museum 
= kegi George IV. sold Hunter House to the nation. About 1830 
m IV., notwithstanding, granted ' эт use to the Duchess of Сиш- 
berland for her life. On the Duke’s accession to the throne of 
ver it became generally known as the “ King of Hanover’s house.” 
The King of Hanover resided in it occasionally, but after his death in 
eee it was unoccupied. In 1852 its use for Herbarium purposes 
GEORGE IV. 
George IV. took at first much interest in Kew, and adopted the 
plan of adapting Hunter House to its present purpose. In 1823 he 
acquired by Act of Parliament the west end of the green and erected 
a tall iron railing, which brought Hunter "mr within the garden area. 
The effect was to close and throw into the garden the old road 
cn Kew Green p^ Brentford Pay. “The preamble recites 
“Parte of the Waste of the said Manor [Kew Green], divides a Mese i 
Grounds belonging to His Majesty on the North side thereof [Hunter House], from 
