354  London  Botanic  Gardens.  {^u^sVwoe™* 
Trustees,  in  response  to  these  advances,  agreed  to  contribute  £800 
per  annum  towards  the  upkeep  of  the  garden,  while  the  Treasury 
expressed  its  willingness  to  provide  a  yearly  sum  of  £150  for  the 
same  purpose.  The  Society  of  Apothecaries  accordingly  surrendered 
the  garden  on  February  21,  1899,  and  the  Charity  Commissioners 
then  established  a  Scheme  by  which  "  the  Trustees  of  the  London 
Parochial  Charities  were  created  the  Trustees  of  the  Garden," 
while  its  administration  was  entrusted  to  a  committee  of  manage, 
ment  constituted  as  follows : 
Nine  members  appointed  by  the  Trustees. 
One  member  appointed  by  each  of  the  following :  The  Treasury, 
the  Lord  President  of  the  Council,  the  Technical  Education  Board 
of  the  London  County  Council,  the  Royal  Society,  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society  of  Great  Britain,  and  the  Senate  of  the  University  of 
London. 
One  member  appointed  in  turn  by  the  Society  of  Apothecaries 
and  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians. 
These  members  were  appointed  for  four  or  five  years,  and,  with  the 
exception  of  the  last  named,  are  eligible  for  reappointment  at  the 
expiration  of  their  term  of  office. 
To  these  sixteen  members  the  representative  of  Sir  Hans  Sloane 
was  added  as  ex-officio  member  of  the  committee. 
In  July,  1899,  tms  committee  appointed  Mr.  William  Hales  as 
Curator  of  the  Garden,  and,  on  the  recommendation  of  Prof.  J.  Bret- 
land  Farmer,  F.R.S.,  the  Professor  of  Botany  in  the  Royal  College 
of  Science,  the  Trustees  were  requested  by  the  committee  "  to  ex. 
pend  a  sum  of  £4,230  in  new  buildings,  and  repairs  and  alterations 
to  the  existing  buildings."  The  project  was  subsequently  modified, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  a  sum  of  £2,000  was  realized  by  the  sale  "  of 
a  strip  of  frontage  to  Royal  Hospital  Road  (then  known  as  Queen's 
Road)  to  the  vestry  of  Chelsea."  This  necessitated  the  pulling 
down  of  the  Curator's  house  and  other  buildings,  so  that,  on  the 
application  of  the  Trustees,  an  expenditure  of  £6,000  was  ultimately 
authorized  by  the  Charity  Commissioners.  The  balance  (£4,000), 
was  advanced  by  the  Trustees,  "  to  be  repaid  in  thirty  years  out  of 
the  income  of  the  garden,"  which  "  consists  of  the  £800  paid  by 
the  Trustees,  the  £150  paid  through  the  Board  of  Education,  and 
an  annual  sum  of  £10  paid  by  the  University  of  London  in  con- 
sideration of  the  many  and  exceptional  specimens  supplied  for 
examinations." 
