"The greatest disaster that has ever been been recorded in connection with the plant-houses at Kew occurred on August 3rd, 1879. In the morning of that day a storm of hail wrecked the glass roofs of most of the houses. The hailstones are recorded to have averaged five inches in circumference. Nearly 40,000 panes were smashed, and the weight of the broken glass amounted to eighteen tons. A grant of ÂŁ7,000 for repairs was sanctioned by Parliament, and an army of glaziers was set to work. The tropical plants suffered from cold and exposure, but the houses were made whole again before winter."
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William Jackson Bean
(26 May 1863 – 19 April 1947) was an English , , and curator of from 1922 to 1929.
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