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Garden,  and  James  Petiver,  the  Society's  first  Demonstrator  of 
Plants.  It  is  hence  reasonable  to  infer  that  his  system  was  reflected 
in  the  arrangement  of  the  plants  in  the  garden  and  in  Petiver's  de- 
monstrations, but  it  must  be  admitted  that  this  is  largely  a  matter 
of  conjecture.  Suffice  it  to  say,  however,  that  Petiver  was  himself  a 
contributor  to  the  third  volume  of  the  Historia  Plantar um,  and  that 
he  adapted  his  writings  to  that  work.  We  find,  moreover,  that 
Samuel  Dale,  the  learned  apothecary  of  Braintree,  adopted  Ray's 
system  in  his  standard  work,  the  Pharmacologia.  But  the  influ- 
ence of  Ray's  contemporary,  Tournefort,  was  also  making  itself 
felt,  and  this  is  perhaps  indicated  by  the  fact  that  Philip  Miller 
followed  a  neutral  course  in  his  catalogue,  published  in  1 730,  of 
the  officinal  plants  in  the  Garden.1  In  this  small  book  of  152 
pages  the  plants  are  divided  into  two  sections,  viz.,  (1)  Herbs 
and  Undershrubs  ;  (2)  Trees  and  Shrubs.  Each  section  is  arranged 
alphabetically,  but  copious  references  are  given  to  the  works  of 
Tournefort  and  Ray,  as  well  as  to  those  of  other  botanists.  Another 
catalogue  covering  the  same  ground  was  published  in  the  same  year 
by  Isaac  Rand,  the  Demonstrator  of  Plants.2    The  author  of  this 
1  Catalogus  Plantarum  officinalium  quae  in  Horto  Chelseiano  aluntur. 
London,  1730.  This  contains  the  names  of  499  plants— 405  in  the  first  section 
{Herbce  et  Suffrutices)  and  94  in  the  second  (Arbores  et  Frutices).  It  is  writ- 
ten in  Latin,  but  an  English  name  is  also  given  to  each  plant. 
2  Index  Plantarum  Officinalium,  quas,  ad  Materice  Medicce  Scientiam  Pro- 
movendam,  in  Horto  Chelseiano,  Ali  ac  Demonstrari  curavit  Societas  Phar- 
maceutica  Londinensis.  London,  1730.  This  catalogue  is  little  more  than  a 
duplication  of  Miller's  work,  but  it  contains  the  names  of  518  plants  as  against 
Miller's  499,  "and  specifies  the  part  of  each  used  in  medicine."  The  appear- 
ance of  these  two  catalogues  in  the  same  year  is  thus  explained  by  Martyn,  in 
the  preface  to  his  edition  of  Miller's  Dictionary  :  "Mr.  Rand,  then  Lecturer 
and  Demonstrator  to  the  Company  of  Apothecaries  in  their  Botanic  Garden, 
regarded  this  book  of  Mr.  Miller's  as  an  incroachment  upon  his  province  :  he 
therefore  published  in  the  same  year,  Index  Plantarum  Officinalium  Horti 
Chelseiani."  Henry  Field  in  his  "  Memoirs"  omits  all  reference  to  Philip  Mil- 
ler's Catalogus,  but  refers  to  Rand's  Index  in  the  following  terms  :  "  1729.  Mr. 
Isaac  Rand  laid  before  the  Court  of  Assistants  his  '  Index  Officinalis  Horti  Chel- 
seiani ;'  when  one  thousand  copies  were  ordered  to  be  printed  at  the  expense 
of  the  Society.  This  was  a  catalogue  of  that  part  of  the  garden  which  was 
allotted  to  the  culture  of  medicinal  plants,  shrubs  and  trees,  contained  in  the 
Pharmacopoeia  of  the  College  of  Physicians ;  and  was  designed  for  the  use  of  those 
Apprentices,  who  attended  the  Botanical  Lectures  at  the  garden."  Per  contra, 
Semple,  in  his  revision  of  Field's  work,  mentions  Philip  Miller's  Catalogus, 
but  suppresses  Field's  reference  to  Rand's  Index.    This  omission  is  probably 
