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MEMOIR OF 
exertions. He advanced £700 to the College of 
Physicians, which he allowed to be paid off by 
instalments; and in 1721, he made the same 
society a present of £100. The same year, 
(having become lord of the manor of Chelsea, by 
purchase, in 1712,) he gave to the Company of 
Apothecaries the freehold of their botanical 
garden there, upon the sole condition, that they 
should present yearly to the Royal Society, fifty 
new plants, grown in the garden, till the number 
should amount to 2000, and pay a quit rent of 
£5 per annum, which was cheerfully accepted ; and 
the number, of course, was completed in the year 
1761, but the practice was continued till 1773, at 
which time 2550 were completed. Catalogues 
of them were published annually in the Philoso- 
phical Transactions. Sir Hans also contributed 
largely towards the expenses of the hot-houses and 
other necessary erections. In testimony of their 
respect for him, the Company, in 1733, erected 
in the centre of the garden, a marble statue 
executed by Rysbrach, representing him in a full 
bottomed wig and doctor’s gown. On the 
pedestal is a Latin inscription, commemorating 
his donation, and the design and advantage of it.* 
• Hansio Sloane, Baronetto. Achiatro Insignissimo 
Botaniccs Fautori, Hoc honoris caus& Monumcntum Inque 
porpetuum eju9 Memoriam Sacrum, voluit Societas Pliar- 
macopeiorum, Londinensis, 1733. 
