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		BENTHAM, GEORGE (1800-1884), English botanist, was born at Stoke near Portsmouth on the 22nd of September 'Soo.
		George Bentham had neither a school nor a college education, but early acquired the power of giving sustained and concentrated attention to any subject that occupied him—one essential condition of the success he attained as perhaps the greatest systematic botanist of the 19th century.
		The mode in which George Bentham was attracted to the botanical studies which became the occupation of his life is noteworthy; it was through the applicability to them of the logical methods which he had imbibed from his uncle's writings, and not from any special attraction to natural history pursuits.
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	GEORGE BENTHAM - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE BENTHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		George Bentham had neither a school nor a college education, but early acquired the power of giving sustained and concentrated attention to any subject that occupied himone essential condition of the success he attained as perhaps the greatest systematic botanist of the 19th century.
		The mode in which George Bentham was attracted to the botanical studies which became the occupation of his life is noteworthy; it was through the applicability to them of the logical methods which he had imbibed from his uncles writings, and not from any special attraction to natural history pursuits.
		Benthams first publication was his Catalogue des plantes indignes des Pyrinies et du Bas Languedoc (Paris, 1826), the result of a careful exploration of the Pyrenees in company with G. Walker Arnott (I 7991868), afterwards professor of botany in the university of Glasgow.
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	George Bentham
		Bentham maintained what became known as the " idealistic " approach to plant classification -the first tribe arbitrarily representing that which is closet to the perfect orchid, with the less perfect forms in other tribes and subtribes in descending order.
		George Bentham was born on 22 September 1800, at Stroke, near Portsmouth, England.
		Bentham was secretary to the society from 1829 to 1840,and it was during his secretariat that the famous Chiswick fetes were begun.
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	Jeremy Bentham [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Bentham's analytical and empirical method is especially obvious when one looks at some of his main criticisms of the law and of moral and political discourse in general.
		Bentham admits that his version of the principle of utility is something that does not admit of direct proof, but he notes that this is not a problem as some explanatory principles do not admit of any such proof and all explanation must start somewhere.
		Bentham also suggests that individuals would reasonably seek the general happiness simply because the interests of others are inextricably bound up with their own, though he recognized that this is something that is easy for individuals to ignore.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/George Bentham
		George Bentham (September 22, 1800–September 10, 1884) was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".
		George Bentham had neither a school nor a college education, but at an early age acquired the power of giving sustained and concentrated attention to any subject that occupied him.
		Bentham was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1879.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bentham,
		Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832) Often regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism, Bentham is best known for his texts on legal philosophy, and his programmes of social (especially penal) reform.
		Bentham developed the theory of utilitarianism based on the premise that “the greatest happiness of the greatest number” should be the object of individual and government action.
		He was the brother of Jeremy Bentham and father of the botanist George Bentham (1800–84).
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	George Bentham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		George Bentham (September 22, 1800 – September 10, 1884) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (A biologist specializing in the study of plants) botanist, perhaps the greatest systematic botanist of the 19th century.
		The book passed into oblivion, and it was not till 1873 that Bentham’s claims to priority were finally vindicated against those of Sir (Click link for more info and facts about William Hamilton) William Hamilton by (English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)) Herbert Spencer.
		Bentham began with the Flora Hongkongensis in 1861, which was the first comprehensive work on any part of the little-known flora of (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China.
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	Arnold Arboretum - Planting Sequence
		The system they followed—the natural classification system of Bentham and Hooker—was widely accepted by British and American botanists of the time, having been proposed by George Bentham (1800-1884) and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) in their monumental three-volume publication, Genera Plantarum, published in Latin between the years of 1862 and 1883.
		Bentham and Hooker, leading English systematists of the day, conducted their botanical investigations at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where Sir Joseph had succeeded his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, as director.
		Bentham and Hooker classified the conifers in a distinct group between the dicots and the monocots; since there are few woody monocots, the conifers came last in the planting sequence and were sited along Bussey Brook at the end of the original road and pathway network.
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	Bentham, George (1800 - 1884) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		BENTHAM, GEORGE (1800-1884), botanist, was born on 22 September 1800 at Stoke, Hampshire, England, the second son of (Sir) Samuel Bentham, naval architect, and Mary Sophia, eldest daughter of Dr George Fordyce, F.R.S. In 1805-07 the family lived at St Petersburg, then moved to England and in 1814 began a leisurely tour of France.
		Bentham assisted his uncle, Jeremy Bentham, edited his father's papers on naval administration and then entered Lincoln's Inn; he was called to the Bar in 1831 but never practised.
		Bentham strongly supported the claims of Kew before a royal commission in 1871 and in January 1873 was a signatory to a memorial to W. Gladstone; his own diaries, autobiography and papers remained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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	George Bentham - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bentham, George, 1800-1884, one of the greatest of English systematic botanists; nephew of Jeremy Bentham.
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	UCL Bentham Project
		A brief summary of the life and career of Samuel Bentham (section 1) is followed by an examination of the relationship which Jeremy Bentham had with Samuel’s family (section 2), with a particular emphasis on Jeremy’s relationship with his nephew George Bentham (section 3).
		George had come close to marrying a French woman at Montpellier, but in the end the objections of her family had made the marriage impossible.
		George replied that he had no money of his own, and that although he was comfortably off while his father was alive, without wishing to hoard or accumulate money, he would eventually have to earn a living.
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	Jeremy Bentham Biography (Philosopher) — Infoplease.com
		Bentham's outlook made him a vocal critic of many legal and political institutions, and he was considered quite radical for his day.
		Bentham entered Queen's College, Oxford at age 12 and graduated in 1764.
		George Bentham - Bentham, George Bentham, George, 1800–1884, one of the greatest of English systematic...
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		Jeremy Bentham, the publicist, and of scarcely inferior ability though in a different direction.
		George Bentham had neither a school nor a See also:
		The mode in which George Bentham was attracted to the botanical studies which became the occupation of his life is noteworthy; it was through the applicability to them of the logical methods which he had imbibed from his See also:
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	George Bentham -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of …
		In explaining his ideas of the useful and the good, Bentham became the first “utilitarian.” His philosophy, called utilitarianism, holds that all human actions must be judged by their usefulness in promoting the greatest happiness for the greatest number of persons.
		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
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	George Bentham Summary
		Although their classification scheme was replaced by one that recognized evolution, their generic descriptions were excellent and many of their familial and generic categories remain valid today.
		George Bentham (September 22, 1800 – September 10, 1884) was an English botanist, perhaps the greatest systematic botanist of the 19th century.
		His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham.
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	Growing Golden Wattle
		The specimen from which it was named was collected in 1836 in the interior of New South Wales by the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Thomas Mitchell, who led two exploratory expeditions to the Darling and Murray River systems.
		The British botanist, George Bentham (1800-1884) described the species in 1842.
		Bentham wrote Flora Australiensis, the standard reference text on Australian plants until the publication of the Flora of Australia, which commenced in 1981.
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	PBIO 250 Lecture Notes -- History -- Spring 1998: George Bentham
		The English botanist George Bentham, famed today as the senior author with Joseph Dalton Hooker of Genera Plantarum, was one of the most prolific botanists of the 19th century.
		The death of his father and his uncle, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, resulted in George inheriting a substantial income in 1833 freeing him to devote the remainder of his life to botany.
		In 1854, Bentham gave his collection of some 100,000 specimens to the Royal Botanic Garden and was invited to conduct his research efforts at Kew by the director, Sir William Jackson Hooker.
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		A synopsis of the dalbergieae, a tribe of the leguminosae / by George Bentham,...
		Flora Australiensis : a description of the plants of the Australian territory / by George Bentham,...
		Handbook of the british flora : a description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the british isles : for the use of beginners and amateurs / by George Bentham,...
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		The wood is heavy, red in color, and hard, considered by George Bentham to be as hard as iron.
		Bentham published the still-current Flora Australiensis in 1878 at the age of 78; he was the nephew of the more famous legal philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who may still be seen in his chair at University College, London, and who is trundled annually from his closet to preside over a faculty meeting.
		Since George's day, ax steel has risen to the challenge; even so, a 2-inch cube will take 20 tons to crush (if you can imagine 10 sedans balanced on one cubical peg).
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	George Bentham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At Kew, Bentham participated in the Gardens' definitive survey of floras of the British colonies and possessions, for which he prepared the 'Flora Hongkongensis' (1861) and the 'Flora Australiensis' (7 vol., 1863-78), cataloging and describing more than 7,000 species.
		Realizing the inadequacy of current criteria for assigning species to their appropriate genera, he undertook the ambitious task of compiling an unambiguous descriptive classification of all seed plants.
		Collaborating with Hooker's son Sir Joseph, Bentham spent 27 years in research and examination of specimens for the work 'Genera Plantarum' (3 vol., 1862-83).
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		George Bentham[ben´thum] Pronunciation Key, 1800–1884, one of the greatest of English systematic botanists; nephew of Jeremy Bentham.
		He wrote Handbook of British Flora (1858) and, with W. Hooker, Genera Plantarum (1862–83), as well as handbooks on the flora of several British possessions including a seven volume flora of Australia.
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	The Denis Roy Bentham Collection
		Denis Roy Bentham (1923-99), having served in the armed forces in the Second World War, was employed by the Post Office in his hometown of Loughborough from his demobilisation in 1945 until his retirement in February 1983.
		There is correspondence relating to John Bowring, Bentham's literary executor, and other well-known figures such as John Stuart Mill, as well as one of Bentham's mourning rings, and a lock of his hair.
		The bulk of D.R. Bentham's collection was disposed of at auction by Trevor Vennett-Smith, but the pride of the collection, the material relating to Jeremy Bentham, has been donated to University College London Library, by Mrs Eileen Wardle, the surviving sister of Mr Bentham, to form the Denis Roy Bentham Collection.
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	BENTHAM, George and Ferdinand VON MUELLER, Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian Territory. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BENTHAM, George and Ferdinand VON MUELLER, Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian Territory.
		He was chagrined that the project was granted to the distinguished botanist George Bentham of Kew, who was to complete the task without ever leaving England.
		Bentham's mammoth effort in describing some eight thousand specimens took fifteen years, but even then could not hope to achieve completeness.
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		One year after the publication of Whately's book, George Bentham's An Outline of a New System of Logic appeared (1827) which was to serve as a commentary to Whately.
		Bentham's book was critically discussed by William Hamilton in a review article published in the Edinburgh Review (1833).
		With the help of this review Hamilton founded his reputation as the "first logical name in Britain, it may be in the world.''2 Hamilton propagated a revival of the Aristotelian scholastic formal logic without...
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	Samuel Bentham
		British engineer, naval architect, and navy official in Russia (1780-91) and England (from 1795) who was an early advocate of explosive-shell weapons for warships.
		Bentham led Russian vessels fitted with shell guns to victory over a larger Turkish force (June 7, 1788).
		He was the brother of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and father of the botanist George Bentham.
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	George Bentham
		George Bentham (1844 - 1846) The botany of the voyage of H. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836-42.
		George Bentham (1862 - 1883) Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita (Genera of plants in the herbarium of the Kew botanical gardens) 3 vol.
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