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the proceeds of which (£13 6s. 9d.) was devoted to the Garden 
Fund. He manifested a great interest in the Gardens of this 
Society, which prior to this period (1828) was described in the 
report of the council as “ nothing but a widely extended heap 
of rubbish and fragments of stone.” 
The practical management of the Gardens was entrusted to 
Henry Baines, and the zeal with which he laboured to convert 
this “ waste land ” into a Botanical and Ornamental Garden 
has been frequently commended in the reports of the council 
(1827-78.) 
From 1835 to 1838 the Honorary Curator had to suspend 
the arrangement of the specimens, owing to the want of “ a 
receptacle for them.” He assisted Mr. Baines in the manage¬ 
ment of the Gardens which appear to have been very popular 
at this time, for the Horticultural Fete which was held in 
August 1838 realized a profit of £94 7s. 
The Honorary Curator (Rev. W. Hincks) resigned his 
Curatorship and left this city in the year 1839, in order to 
fulfil his engagement at Queen’s College, Cork, as Professor 
of Natural History. 
The publication (in 1840j of Baines’ “ Flora of Yorkshire,” 
was a valuable contribution to the Botanical literature of 
Yorkshire. The compilation of this Flora had involved much 
time and labour, and the author utilised the information 
contained in the Dalton and Middleton collections. 
The council appointed Mr. Oswald Allen Moore to the office 
of Honorary Curator of Botany in 1840. This gentleman 
devoted much of his leisure time to the Gardens, and to 
the collections in the Museum. 
In addition to lecturing on Botany, he was engaged in a 
revised “ Flora of Yorkshire,” but owing to his sudden death 
in 1862, this work was never published. 
In 1862, Dr. Matterson was appointed as Mr. Moore’s 
successor, and he had the charge of the collections until his 
death in 1890. 
Reference has been made to the Rev. W. Hincks’ labour 
in connection with the arrangement of the Herbaria. Too 
much praise cannot be bestowed on him for his efforts in this 
direction. When he left the city in 1839, the orders to be 
