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Dale's  herbarium  was  supplemented  in  1745  by  a  donation  of 
12  volumes  of  dried  plants  from  Robert  Nicholls.  These  were 
deposited  in  the  greenhouse,  and,  in  1748,  22  similar  volumes  were 
presented  to  the  Society  by  Joseph  Miller's  widow.  Isaac  Rand's 
herbarium  was  also  bequeathed  to  the  Society,  and  in  1759  Mrs. 
Rand  gave  a  sum  of  £"100  to  be  held  in  trust  for  its  repair.  That  is 
to  say,  two-thirds  of  the  annual  interest  was  to  be  paid  to  the 
Demonstrator  for  the  time  being  "  for  placing  twenty  newly  dried 
specimens  of  plants  yearly,  in  her  late  husband's  collection,  in  room 
of  such  as  might  be  decayed,"  while  the  remaining  third  of  the 
interest  was  allotted  "  to  the  Master  and  Wardens  for  seeing  it  done." 
In  Stanesby  Alchorne's  catalogue  of  1769  the  Hortus  Siccus  of 
Joseph  Miller  was  stated  to  consist  of  20  volumes.  A  "  bundle  of 
dried  plants,"  the  gift  of  John  Wilmer,  is  also  mentioned  in  this 
catalogue,  but  there  is  no  reference  in  the  latter  to  Isaac  Rand's 
collection.  William  Hudson  bequeathed  his  herbarium  to  the 
Apothecaries'  Society  at  his  death  in  1793.  In  1806  this  collection 
was  presented  to  Thomas  Wheeler,  who  was  then  Demonstrator  of 
Plants,  and,  finally,  in  1862,  the  whole  of  the  herbarium  specimens 
at  the  Chelsea  Garden  was  presented  to  the  trustees  of  the  British 
Museum.  The  most  important  of  these  collections  is  undoubtedly 
that  of  Samuel  Dale,  owing  to  the  fact  that  it  contains  the  original 
herbarium  of  John  Ray,  who  had  bequeathed  it  to  his  friend  Dale. 
Having  now  considered  the  main  features  of  interest  in  the 
materiel  oi  the  garden  under  the  Society's  rule  we  may  conclude  this 
first  section  by  amplifying  our  account  of  the  administration  of  the 
garden  during  that  period. 
It  has  already  been  stated  that  when  the  Society  of  Apothecaries 
came  into  complete  possession  of  the  garden  in  1722,  a  special  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  administer  the  latter.  This  committee 
originally  consisted  of  the  Master,  the  two  Wardens  and  nine  other 
members  of  the  Court  of  Assistants.  The  same  constitution  as  to 
number  of  members  obtained  until  1776,  but  in  1752  three  of  the 
members  were  ordered  to  be  changed  every  year.  In  1776  the 
Court  of  Assistants  directed  that  every  member  of  that  court  who 
had  served  the  office  of  master  should  be  a  standing  member  of  the 
Garden  Committee.  The  number  of  members  on  this  committee  was 
further  increased  in  1784  by  the  addition  of  three  members  of  the 
Livery,  and  this  appears  to  have  been  the  last  change  made  in  the 
