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Mar “ You will not be a little сасе and І think not ng I oae when 
I tell н Jour letter that you wrote me giving particulars of t in of Kew 
Gardens. the interest taken by the F Prinosi of Saxe Gotha, im said letter went 
to the throne, and MEI read by Her Majesty and Prince Albert; they were much 
interested in it. ere is no doubt that was the reason Lord Ilchester came to 
Kew, as he is one ot Her Majesty's household 
seems probable that after all the continued existence of Kew was 
мы due to the interest of the Sovereign than the influence of popular 
agitation. 
Sm WILLIAM Hooker. 
Towards the end of the year, Mr. Aiton intimated his intention of 
resigning ы беу ш єз wi immer pese having been nearly 50 
years in the s o have re esigned the charge of 
the Pleasure бааа, ‘il (1845) 109 Yeats tate Sir William arem. 
F.R.S., then Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glas 
was appointed Director of the Botanic Garden, which then ну 
only 15 acres, an insignificant area Rar ази" with the present establish- 
ment. “ His duties commenced on the 1st of April 1841, from which 
% date commenced a new era in the history of the Royal Garden, Kew.” 
