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not  well  adapted  for  this  purpose,  as  it  is  only  by  persistent  effort 
that  plants  can  be  made  to  thrive  at  all  in  an  uncongenial  atmos- 
phere, such  as  that  of  London. 
The  system  of  seed  exchange  with  other  institutions  which  was 
inaugurated  in  1682  is  assiduously  maintained,  and  a  seed  list  is 
issued  annually  by  the  Curator.  In  the  year  1933-04,  872  packets 
of  seeds  were  received  and  1,052  sent  away,  the  recipients  or  donors 
comprising  the  following  gardens:  Kew,  Dublin  (Royal  Botanical), 
Dublin  (Trinity  College),  Cambridge,  Oxford,  Birminghim,  Bruns- 
wick, Dresden,  Erlangen,  Kiel,  Hamburg,  Berlin,  Greifswald,  Ghent, 
Brussels,  Groningen,  Cracow,  Gbrlitz,  Innsbruck,  Agram,  Lemberg, 
Bucharest,  Paris,  Lyons  (Medical),  Lyons  (Municipal),  St.  Peters- 
burg, Palermo,  La  M^rtola,  Catania,  Valencia,  Madrid,  Melbourne, 
Dunedin,  and  St.  Louis  (U.  S.  A.). 
[The  following  should  be  consulted  for  further  details  concerning  the  Chelsea 
Physic  Garden  : 
Memoirs,  Historical  and  Illustrative,  of  the  Botanick  Garden  at  Chelsea; 
belonging  to  the  Society  of  Apothecaries  of  London,  by  Henry  Field.  London, 
1820. 
The  same,  revised,  corrected,  and  continued  to  1878,  by  R.  H.  Semple,  M.D. 
London.  1878. 
The  Physic  Garden  at  Chelsea,  by  William  Hales,  Curator^  in  "  The  Garden" 
for  August  2,  1902,  p.  79. 
The  Chelsea  Physic  Garden. — First  Report  of  the  Committee  of  Management. 
London.  1905. 
The  History  of  the  Society  of  Apothecaries  of  London,  by  C.  R.  B.  Barrett, 
M.A.  London.  1905.  This  work  contains  many  references  to  the  Chelsea 
Physic  Garden,  culled  from  the  minute  books  of  the  Society.  It  is,  moreover, 
indispensable  to  those  who  wish  to  make  themselves  acquainted  with  the  history 
of  the  Society.  The  general  reader,  however,  wi41  find  it  necessary  to  obtain 
some  preliminary  information  respecting  the  development  of  the  British  apoth- 
ecary before  beginning  Mr.  Barrett's  work,  as  there  are,  in  the  latter,  references 
to  various  legislative  enactments  which  will  not  be  understood  without  some 
such  assistance.  For  this  purpose  see  "The  Apothecary  Ancient  and  Modern 
of  the  City  of  London,"  by  George  Corfe,  M.D.,  Loudon,  1897,  and  the  article 
"Apothecary"  in  the  Encyclopaedia  Britannica,  ninth  edition,  Vol.  II,  p.  19S. 
No  attempt  has  been  made,  in  the  present  paper,  to  deal  with  biographical 
details.  These  are,  nevertheless,  of  great  interest,  and  will  be  found,  for  the 
most  part,  in  Field  and  Semple  or  in  the  u  Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches 
of  the  Progress  of  Botany  in  England,  from  its  origin  to  the  In'roduction  of 
the  Linncean  System,"  by  Richard  Pulteney,  M.D.,  F.R.S.  In  two  volumes. 
London.  1790.  The  "Biographical  Index  of  British  and  Irish  Botanists," 
compiled  by  James  Britten,  F.L.S.,  and  G.  S.  Boulger,  F.L.S.,  F.G.S.,  London, 
1893  (First  Supplement,  1899),  should  also  be  consulted.] 
