104 JOHN JOSF.ni IlKNNETT. 



ever be tiilkcd of seriously again." The recommendations of the Com- 

 missioneis are a curious commentary on this statement. 



The remaining years of his life were (juietly spent in retirement at 

 Maresfield. It was not long before his educated neighbours discovered 

 the striking characters of mind and heart that distinguished him, and 

 his simple-hearted benevolence of disposition found exercise in the 

 many unostentatious deeds of charity which he was always rendering 

 to the poor of the village. 



He died from disease of the heart on the 29th of February last. 



The genus Bennettia, proposed by Gray to commemorate the early 

 hibours of the two brothers, was, as we have seen, set aside by the 

 earlier name of De Candollc. K. Brown dedicated a genus of Euphor- 

 hiacecc to his colleague, which was published in the last part of the 

 " Plantte Javanicaj " (1852), but the plants thus grouped together 

 had been already (1846) separated generically by Moritzi, and named 

 GaJearia, so that Brown's i/^'MWd'^^m had also to be given up. Miquel 

 accordingly gave Mr. Bennett's name to an undescribed genus of 

 Bixineae, of which he had only a single species, a plant from Java, 

 collected by Horsfield, and happily named by him Bennettia Hora- 

 fieldii. This genus though maintained in Bentham and Hooker's 

 "Genera Plantarum " has been reduced to Flacourtia\)j Baillon. 



When Mr. Bennett resigned the office of Secretary to the Linnean 

 Society a number of his friends re(iuested him to sit for his portrait. 

 This now hangs beside the portraits of other distinguished men in 

 the meeting-room of the Society. His colleagues in the British 

 Museum obtained a bust by Wcekes, R.A.. which is now in the 

 Botanical Department. The portrait prefixed is from a photograph 

 taken in 1859, and gives a more faithful representation of Mr. Ben- 

 nett than either the painting or the bust though it fails to convey the 

 genial and benevolent expression so uniformly characteristic of Mr. 

 Bennett's countenance. 



List of the Miscellaneous Wkitings of J. J. Bennett. 



Description of Arundinaria Schomhurghii. — Proc. Linn. Soc, 1840, 



p. 51. 

 Description of a new species of Fhrynium from Western Africa. — 



Pharm. Journ., 1855, p. IGl. 

 Description of the Bungo, or Frankincense-tree of Sierra Leone. — 



Pharm. Journ., 1855, pp. 251-253. 

 Description of the Kobo-trce, a new genus oi Leguminosa:, collected by 



Dr. W. F.Daniell in Sierra Leone. — Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. i., 



1857, pp. 149-151. 

 On the Nomenclature of the genus Bnffonia. — Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. 



ii., 1858, pp. 188-190. 

 Slateraent of Facts relating to the Discovery of the Composition of 



Water by the Hon. H. Cavendish.— Proc. Boy. Soc, vol. ix., 



1859, pp. 642-644. 

 Note on the species of Croton described by Linnfeus under the name 



of Cluiia Eluteria and Chdia Cascaril/a.— Journ. Linn. Soc. 



Bot. iv., 1860, pp. 25-30. 

 In earlv life Mr. Bennett was a frequent contributor to the 



