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ties in that part of the creation. Expe- 
riments of various intention were inftitu- 
ted by this learned body. Under their au- 
fpices, the anatomy, and philofophy of 
plants, were illuftrated by Grew, and im- 
proved by Hales. Such memoirs in the 
Philofophical TranfaBions as more diredlly 
relate to my objedl, or were written by thofe 
whom I commemorate, have been already, 
or will be, briefly noticed in the courfe of 
thefe pages. 
CHELSEA GARDEN, 
I proceed further to obferve, that, among 
the affiftances which the fcience has re- 
ceived from public bodies of men, muft be 
mentioned alfo that which fprung from the 
Phylic Garden, founded by the Company 
of Apothecaries at Chelfea^ an inftitution 
which refleded the higheft honour on that 
refpedtable fociety. This took place in the 
year 1 673, although the infcription over the 
entrance imports, that the Garden was not 
effeftually conftrufted till the year i686. 
From the time of Johnson, the editor 
of Gerard, a cudom had prevailed among 
the London Apothecaries to form a fociety 
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