To be celebrating the 200th anniversary this year of the Royal Botanic Gardens is quite astounding. Just 28 years after the establishment of the colony on Port Jackson, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sufficiently forward looking to create the first scientific institution in the country. Certainly its creation was encouraged at the highest level in London by Queen Charlotte, consort of George III.
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