A statement of facts relative to the establishment and progress of the Elgin Botanic Garden, and the subsequent disposal of the same to the State of New-York / [David Hosack].

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A statement of facts relative to the establishment and progress of the Elgin Botanic Garden, and the subsequent disposal of the same to the State of New-York / [David Hosack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The .Botanic Garden, commonly known by the name of Elgin, situated in the vicinity of this city, having agreeably to an act of the Legislature passed on the 1 Gii day of March, 1810, become the property of the state of New-York, I have deemed it proper to lay before the public, the following statement of facts relative to the first establishment, the progress, and subsequent dis¬ posal of that institution. A publication of this kind has become the more necessary for the purpose of correcting many errors which have prevailed, and do still prevail •with the community, owing partly to an ignorance of the real circumstances of the case, and partly to misre¬ presentations circulated through the medium of the pub¬ lic papers, and other channels of information. Among these errors may be particularly mentioned the three following: first, that the ground appropriated to the use of the Botanic Garden, was not originally purchased by me, but gratuitously granted by an act of the corporation of this city; secondly, that I have received an annual salary from the Legislature of this state, for the maintG”