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I. A Catalogue of fifty plants lately frejented to the 
Royal Society, by the Company of Apotheca- 
ries of London 5 purfuant to the DlreSiion of 
Sir Hans Sloan e, (Bart. Trefident of the Col- 
lege of Phyficians, and Vice-^rejident of the 
Royal Society. 
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T he Apothecaries Qi{ London^ having, 
in the Year 1673, eflabliftied a Phyfick-Garden, 
which they have fince furnifh’d with a great Variety 
of Plants, for the Improvement of their Members in 
the Knowledge of Botany j Sir Jians Bart.' in 
order to encourage and promote an Undertaking fo fer- 
viceable to the Publick, has generoufly granted to the 
Company the Inheritance of the ^faid Garden, being 
part of his Eflate and Manor of Chelfea^ on condition 
that it be for ever kept up and maintain’d by the Com- 
pany as a Phylick-Garden ^ and as an Evidence of its being 
fo maintain’d, he has direded and obliged the Compa- 
ny, in Confideration of the faid Grant, to prefent year- 
ly for ever to the Royal Society, at one of their weekly 
Meetings, fifty Specimens of Plants, that have grown 
in the faid Garden the preceding Year, which are all to 
be fpecifically diftind from each other, until the Num- 
ber of 2000 Plants be completed. 
Accordingly the Company ^ did lately prefent to the 
Royal Society, by the Hands of Mr. Rand, and Mr. 
Meres, the following fifty Specimens of Plants, for the 
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