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Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1729; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand

Reference number: CLP/10i/54

Date: 1729

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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 1729; pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Præs. Col. Reg. Med. & Soc. Reg. by Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F. R. S'.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 March 1730.

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CLP/10i/54
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1729
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2 pages
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Isaac Rand

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Isaac Rand, Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1729; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand, 1729, CLP/10i/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_54/catalogue-a-catalogue-of-the-fifty-plants-from-chelsea-garden-presented-to-the-royal-society-by-the-company-of-apothecaries-for-the-year-1729-pursuant-to-the-direction-of-sir-hans-sloane-by-isaac-rand, accessed on 08 December 2025

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