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George Bentham empezó cola Flora Hongkongensis en 1861, que foi'l primer trabayu comprensible en cualesquier parte sobre la pocu conocida flora de China. Este foi siguíu pola Flora Australiensis, en siete volúmenes (1863–1878), el primer tratáu sobre la flora d'un continente que se terminara.
George Bentham. George Bentham CMG FRS FLS (22 de septiembre de 1800 – 10 de septiembre de 1884) fue un botánico inglés, descrito por el botánico de malezas Duane Isely como "el principal botánico sistemático del siglo XIX". Nacido en una familia distinguida, inicialmente estudió derecho, pero desde temprana edad sintió fascinación ...
BENTHAM, GEORGE (1800–1884), English botanist, was born at Stoke near Portsmouth on the 22nd of September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham (1757–1831), was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham, the publicist, and of scarcely inferior ability though in a different direction.
Nov 13, 2007 · Bentham, George (1800 - 1884) Born Sept. 22, 1800, Stoke, Devon, England. Died Sept. 10, 1884, London. British botanist whose classification of seed plants (Spermatophyta), based on an exhaustive study of all known species, served as a foundation for modern systems of vascular plant taxonomy. Impressed by the French naturalist Pyrame de ...
The capstone to Hooker’s career came in 1883 with the publication of the final volume of the Genera Plantarum, written in conjunction with George Bentham. This world flora, describing 7,569 genera and approximately 97,000 species of seed-bearing plants, was based on a personal examination of the specimens cited, the vast majority of which ...
The Bentham-Moxon Trust was founded in 1984 by bringing together several charitable trusts, all of which have the objective of supporting the work of Kew. The first of these trusts was set up in 1884 with a bequest of George Bentham. Further gifts were made over the years, including from the wills of Margaret Louisa Moxon and Alfred Edward Moxon.
George Bentham (1800–1884) George Bentham became attracted to botanical studies by applying to them his uncle’s logical methods, and not by any special interest in natural history. While studying at Angoulême, he came across a copy of A.P. de Candolle’s Flore Française, becoming interested in the analytical tables for identifying plants.
