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Handbook of the British flora
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
Published by L. Reeve & Co., 6 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, England.
1858 & 1920
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George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) 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).
Bentham's life spanned the Darwinian revolution, and his young colleague Joseph Dalton Hooker was Darwin's closest friend and one of the first to accept Darwin's ideas. Until then, Bentham unquestioningly believed that species were fixed. In 1874 he wrote that "Fifteen years have sufficed to establish a theory [of evolution by natural selection]". Bentham's conversion to the ...
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The standard author abbreviation used to indicate this person as the author, when citing a botanical name: Benth.
15,585 plant species named BY Bentham and 599 plant species named AFTER Bentham.
Handbook of the British flora