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*«  That  the  conducting  these  demonstrations  and  lectures  be  com- 
mitted to  the  Society's  Demonstrator  of  Botany,  ancT  that  the 
monthly  lectures  hitherto  delivered  by  him  at  the  Garden  be  dis- 
continued, as  merging  in  and  more  effectually  provided  for  in  the 
lectures  now  proposed  to  be  adopted.    .    .  . 
"  That  in  consequence  of  the  additional  service  occasioned  by 
these  lectures  the  salary  of  the  Botanical  Demonstrator  be  in- 
creased." 
These  recommendations  were  adopted,  and  the  new  rules  came 
into  operation  in  the  following  year.  When  Lindley  became 
Prcefectus  Horti  and  Professor  of  Botany  the  number  of  lectures  in 
the  garden  was  increased,  a  lecture  being  delivered  twice  a  week  at 
8.30  a.m.  in  May,  June,  and  July,  instead  of  one  weekly  at  10  a.m. 
from  May  to  September.  Other  suggestions  as  to  the  re-arrange- 
ment of  the  plants  and  the  preparation  of  a  catalogue  were  also 
made  by  Lindley,  and  these  were  readily  acted  upon  by  the  Society. 
Lindley,  in  a  word,  may  be  said  to  have  dictated  terms  which  were 
at  once  acceded  to,  so  that  the  entire  management  of  the  garden 
was  virtually  in  his  hands  until  the  suppression  in  1853  of  the  office 
of  Director  of  the  Garden,  which  he  was  the  last  to  hold. 
We  have  seen  that  the  regulations  of  1773  had  placed  the  gar- 
dener in  a  subordinate  position.  This  arrangement  seems  to  have 
worked  smoothly  on  the  whole  until  the  advent  of  Lindley,  when 
submission  to  the  Prcefectus  Horti  was  enforced  on  Anderson,  who 
was  gardener  at  the  time.  After  the  abolition  of  the  office  of 
Prcefectus  Horti,  the  gardener,  then  known  as  the  curator,  was 
entrusted  with  the  management  of  the  garden,  subject,  of  course, 
to  the  higher  authority  of  the  Society's  governing  body.  The  inade- 
quate remuneration  of  the  gardener  seems  to  have  been  a  cause  of 
much  complaint  on  the  part  of  that  functionary.  In  1767  Philip 
Miller  presented  a  memorial  to  the  Court  of  Assistants  showing  that 
his  expenses  in  connection  with  the  garden  were  not  covered  by 
his  salary,  and  a  gratuity  of  £50  was  accordingly  granted  to  him  in 
the  following  year.  Forsyth,  in  1774,  also  complained  that  his 
salary  was  insufficient,  and,  in  order  to  supplement  this,  the  vicious 
principle  was  introduced  of  allowing  him  to  sell  supernumerary 
plants  for  his  own  profit.  Before  leaving  this  topic  there  are  a  few 
other  administrative  matters  connected  with  the  office  of  gardener 
which  merit  some  notice.    Thus  we  learn  that  in  1744  "  an  order 
