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WE recently announced the death of the veteran botanist, George Bentham, when within a few days of his eighty-fourth birthday. His life, from a very early age, was one of incessant mental activity, and of much change and vicissitude during its three or four first decades. Through his birth, connections, and various residences on the continent of Europe, as well as in England, he became acquainted with many men famous in literature, science, and art, and his career is rendered especially notable from its intimate association with his uncle Jeremy, the jurist, in the arrangement of whose papers and preparation of whose works for the press he was actively engaged for not a few years, and with whom he resided on the most intimate terms as companion and secretary till the death of that relative in 1832. This and the scientific value now attached to the “pedigree” have suggested the expediency of entering with some detail into the family history and early life of Mr. Bentham (for most of which we are indebted to information imparted by himself) before detailing his botanical career and writings.
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George Bentham . Nature 30, 539–543 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030539e0
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