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George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 2,
published in 1864, gives descriptions of seven orders of the
dicotyledon class of flowering plant.
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 1,
published in 1863, introduces the project and describes 39 orders
of the dicotyledon class of flora.
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 3,
published in 1866, describes 14 orders of dicotyledon flora in the
subclasses polypetalae and monopetalae.
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 4,
published in 1869, describes 26 orders of dicotyledon flora in the
subclass monopetalae.
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 5,
published in 1870, gives the details of 14 orders of monopetalae
and monochlamydeae dicotyledon flora.
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 6,
published in 1873, describes 20 orders of flora in the classes
dicotyledon and monocotyledon.
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential
botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more
than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant
contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume
work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published
from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by
the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using
the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of
Ferdinand Mueller (1825-96), a German botanist in Australia -
Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species
of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed
compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 7,
published in 1878, concludes with descriptions of flora in the
classes of monocotyledon and cryptogamae.
English botanist George Bentham (1800-84) is most famous as the
author of the popular Handbook of the British Flora (1858), which
ran into many editions. A distinguished scientist, Bentham was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862, and served as
President of the Linnean Society of London for thirteen years
(1861-74). Originally published in 1826, this catalogue of plants
from the Pyrenees region of France is Bentham's second work.
Inspired by French botanist de Candolle (1778-1841) as well as by
the analytical methods of his uncle, the famous philosopher Jeremy
Bentham, this book is a systematic overview of the plants found
between Figueras, in the north of Spain, and Bordeaux, Narbonne and
Montpellier in France. The book opens with the story of Bentham's
1825 three-month trip through the Pyrenees region, with botanist G.
A. Walker Arnott (1799-1868), on which the Catalogue is based.
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