Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1730; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand List of botanical specimens by Isaac Rand. 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 the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1730; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Prœf. Col. Reg. Med. & Soc. Reg. by Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F. R. S'. Read to the Royal Society on 17 February 1731. 1731