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  <dc:title>Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants, from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1732; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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 1732 ; pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Præs. Col. Reg. Med. &amp; Soc. Reg. By Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F. R. S'.

Read to the Royal Society on 28 February 1733.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1733</dc:date>
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