Memoirs of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea
Belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London

Published in 1878, this book recounts the history of the Chelsea Physic Garden from its creation in 1673.

Henry Field (Author), R. H. Semple (Edited by)

9781108037488, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2011

290 pages, 5 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.37 kg

Henry Field (1755–1837) was a British apothecary and member of the Society of Apothecaries of London. Besides serving in various administrative capacities for the Society, as well as for the London Annuity Society (founded by his father), he was nominated in 1831 as one of the medical officers for the City of London board of health, charged with taking precautions against an outbreak of cholera in the city. A lecturer and regular contributor to medical journals, Field is also the author of this history of the Chelsea Physic Garden, first published in 1820. The present reissue, published in 1878, was revised and extended by Robert Hunter Semple (1815–91). The garden was originally created by the Society as a professional resource in 1673 and the book covers its development up to 1878, and also includes a ground plan of the garden in that year.

Memoirs of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea
List of medical plants in Plot A, after the arrangement of De Candolle
List of medical plants in Plots B and C, after the arrangement of Lindley
List of natural orders of herbaceous plants on Plots D, E, F, G.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]