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London  Botanic  Gardens. 
f  A.m.  Jorr.  Pharm. 
1     August,  1906. 
Charles  Darwin.  Engravings  of  the  garden  at  various  periods  are 
hung  on  the  north  wall  of  the  lecture  hall,  Plates  XXIII  and  XXV 
being  reproduced  from  two  of  these. 
At  the  end  of  May,  1904,  a  tin  tablet  recording,  in  the  following 
terms,  the  reconstitution  of  the  garden,  was  placed  on  the  west  side 
of  the  entrance  to  the  Laboratory  Building: — 
This  Garden  was  established  in  the  year  1673  by  the  Society  of  Apothecaries 
of  London  and  was  at  first  held  on  lease,  but  in  1722  was  conveyed  by  Sir  Hans 
Sloane  to  the  Society  for  the  Encouragement  of  Botany. 
The  Garden  was  managed  and  maintained  by  the  Apothecaries  Society  until 
the  21st  January  1899,  when  by  a  Scheme  of  the  Charity  Commissioners  for 
England  and  Wales  the  Trustees  of  the  London  Parochial  Charities  were 
appointed  to  be  the  Trustees  of  this  Garden  in  the  place  of  the  Society.  Provi- 
sion was  then  made  for  its  management  by  a  Committee  appointed  by  the 
Trustees  of  the  Garden,  the  Treasury,  the  Lord  President  of  the  Council,  the 
Technical  Education  Board  of  the  London  County  Council,  the  Royal  Society, 
the  Society  of  Apothecaries,  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians,  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society,  the  Senate  of  the  University  of  London,  and  the  Representative 
of  Sir  Hans  Sloane. 
The  old  Lecture  room  and  Curator's  residence  having  been  pulled  down  in 
1900,  the  present  buildings  were  erected  on  the  same  site  and  formally  opened 
on  the  25th  July,  1902,  by  the  Rt.  Hon.  Earl  Cadogan,  K.  G.,  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Sir  Hans  Sloane. 
Sir  Joseph  Savory,  Bart.  Wm.  Hayes  Fisher,  M.P., 
Chairman.  Chairman, 
and  and 
Sir  Owen  Roberts,  Charles  Algernon  Whitmore,  M.P. 
Vice-Chairman  of  the  Trustees.  Vice-Chairman  Committee  of 
Management. 
Algernon  Bertram.  Baron  Redesdale,  Chairman  oj  the  Garden  Committee. 
H.  Howard  Batten,  Clerk. 
December,  1902. 
The  potting-house  and  the  shed,  to  the  east  of  the  range  of  plant- 
houses  (see  Plate  XXVI),  are  to  be  included  among  the  additions 
made  in  1902,  and  the  inscriptions  on  the  pedestal  of  the  Sloane 
Statue  were  also  re-cut  in  that  year. 
The  work  of  the  Garden. — Medicinal  plants,  as  such,  no  longer 
form  a  specialized  feature  of  the  Chelsea  Physic  Garden,  inasmuch 
as  the  object  aimed  at  by  the  body  at  present  responsible  for  the 
management  of  the  garden  is  educational  in  the  wider  sense,  and 
the  teaching  of  botany  as  a  pure  science  has  accordingly  replaced 
the  specialized  study  of  drug-yielding  plants.  In  associating  labora- 
tory work  with  the  study  of  living  plants  in  the  botanic  garden, 
