| RefNo | CLP/10i/52 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1727; purusant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by [Isaac Rand] |
| Date | 1727 |
| 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 1727, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Pres. Col. R. Med. & Soc. Reg. by Isaac Rand Apothecary, F. R. S'.
Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1728. |
| Language | Latin |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0001
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 36 (1729), p 1 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/13/72 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1077 | Rand; Isaac (1674 - 1743) | 1674 - 1743 |
| NA8406 | Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector | 1660 - 1753 |