Memoirs historical and illustrative, of the Botanick Garden at Chelsea ; belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London / [Henry Field].

  • Field, Henry, 1755-1837.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Memoirs historical and illustrative, of the Botanick Garden at Chelsea ; belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London / [Henry Field]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE BOTANICK GARDEN AT CHELSEA# Of the various and important events which have taken place, during the two centuries that have elapsed since the So¬ ciety of Apothecaries became a separate and independent Corporation, there is no one which reflects greater honour upon it as a Society, and more forcibly evinces the zeal, energy, and disinterestedness of its early members in the promotion of science, than the establishment of a Bo- tanick Garden at Chelsea. Were not the fact indisputable, it would scarcely be credited by posterity, that this expensive design was commenced at a time when the Society could not with E
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