George Bentham ( born George Bentham ; September 22, 1800 - September 10, 1884 ) is an English botanist .
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Benth. " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Proceedings
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
George Bentham was born in 1800 in Stock, near Portsmouth . In 1814-1827 he lived in France, studied at the Faculty of Theology in Montcuban . He studied law in London, but soon left the legal field and devoted himself exclusively to botany. Since 1861, he began to engage in botanical research in the Kew Botanical Garden .
Bentham’s major work “Genera Plantarum ...” (together with Hooker , 1862–1883) is a miraculous monument created with amazing and colossal knowledge, patience and scientific conscientiousness; he ensured for a long time the system of plant classification they proposed. In this classification, somewhat similar to the classification of the Decandol , families are arranged in groups, or rows; this method seemed less natural than the Lindley , Endlicher, and Broniard systems, and English scientists, not without some hesitation, preferred the Broniard system.
In 1830, he was secretary of the horticulture society and subsequently president of the London Linnaeus Society (1861–1874).
In the interests of science, Bentham traveled almost all of Europe. He owns a description of the flora of Brazil (1859-1862), Australia (1863-1878), India , and the environs of Hong Kong .
He was a foreign correspondent member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (since 1872) and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (since 1875).
George Bentham died in London on September 10, 1884.
Proceedings
- “Labiatarum genera et species” (London, 1832-1836) (lat.)
- “Handbook of the British Flora” (1858 and 1865 )
- Flora Honkongensis (1861) (lat.)
- "Flora Australiensis" (in collaboration with Ferdinand Muller , 1863-1870) (lat.)
- " Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita " (in collaboration with Hooker , 3 volumes, 1862-1883) (lat.)
In addition, he processed the Papilionaceae family for Flora brasiliensis, and the Polemoniaceae , Scrophulariaceae , Labiatae, and Stockhusiaceae families for the Prodromus Dekandoleus .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ George Bentham // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Ogilvie M. B. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science : Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century - Routledge , 2003. - Vol. 1. - P. 117. - 798 p. - ISBN 978-1-135-96342-2
Links
- Bentham George // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907. Retrieved November 30, 2008
- Bentham, George // Bari - Bracelet. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. Ed. A. M. Prokhorov ; 1969-1978, vol. 3).