Catalogue description RECORDS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.

This record is held by City of Westminster Archives Centre

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Title: RECORDS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.
Description:

Administration and plans

Date: 1838-1931
Held by: City of Westminster Archives Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Royal Botanic Society of London

Physical description: 27 volumes, 6 bundles
Subjects:
  • Botanical gardens
Administrative / biographical background:

The Society was formed in 1838 and granted a royal charter in 1839, for the promotion of botany and the formation of botanical gardens. Until 1932 the Society leased the ground inside the Inner Circle of Regent's Park, and maintained gardens there. In 1932 it failed to secure a renewal of the lease, and the Society was dissolved. Its surviving record were deposited in the St.Marylebone Public Library.

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