Catalogue, 'A catalogue of 50 plants lately presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries of London, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand Covering letter and list of specimens by Isaac Rand. Catalogued presented by Rand and Mr [John] Meres. The Company of Apothecaries of London had established a physic garden in 1673. Sloane had granted them part of his estate and manor of Chelsea on condition that it would be kept by the Company as a physic garden. As evidence of this, the Company were asked to present 50 specimens of plants annually which had been grown there in the previous year. Subject: Botany Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A catalogue of fifty plants lately presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries of London; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the College of Physicians, and Vice President of the Royal Society'. 1723