Carl Stokes
first African-American mayor of Cleveland
George Bentham
British botanist (1800-1884)
George Bentham was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as “the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century”. Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
Table of Contents
About the George Bentham
George Bentham was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as “the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century”. Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his Genera Plantarum (1862-1883). He died in London in 1884.
2 Quotes by George Bentham
- 1.
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
George BenthamBritish botanist (1800-1884)
- 2.
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
George BenthamBritish botanist (1800-1884)