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Garden expensive to keep up. When in 1685 it cost 
them £130, besides the Curator’s salary, they made an 
arrangement, by which they paid him {100 a year, out 
of which he had to keep up the Garden, and was allowed 
to sell the plants. Watt was the first Curator under this 
new plan, and Doody, a botanist of some standing who 
succeeded him, was under the same conditions. Philip 
Miller was appointed Curator, after the land had been 
given by Sir Hans Sloane, and other well-known men 
have been connected with it. After 1724, besides the 
Curator, a “ Praefectus Horti,” or Director, was appointed 
to visit and inspect the Garden, and report on its con¬ 
dition to the Company. Sometimes there was a little 
rivalry between the two, and at one time this occasioned 
two lists of the plants contained in the Garden being 
published, one by Isaac Rand, the other by Philip Miller. 
Among the famous names in botany or horticulture con¬ 
nected with the Garden are Dr. Dale, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Blackwell, James Sherard and his brother William, 
Joseph Millar, William Curtis, Forsyth, Robert Fortune 
and Dr. Lindley, and Nathaniel Ward, the inventor of 
“ Wardian Cases.” But of all the Curators, Philip 
Miller was one of the most eminent, and did most 
for the Garden. His Dictionary was for years the 
standard work on horticulture, and went through 
numerous editions and translations. He published a 
catalogue of plants in the Physic Garden in 1730. 
The last “ Praefectus Horti ” was Lindley, who held 
the office from 1835 to 1853. During that time the 
expenses were getting too heavy for the Society, and 
after his death no successor was appointed. Thomas 
Moore, who was co-editor with Lindley of the well- 
known “ Treasury of Botany,” and author of several 
