454 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
his original scientific production, was one of some mark, for 
it is praised by Stanley-Jevons in his recent “ History of the 
Sciences.” 
On attaining his majority, his elder and only brother having 
died, he was placed in management of his father’s Provencal 
estate, an employment which he took up with alacrity and 
prosecuted with success, turning to practical account his me- 
thodical habits, his indomitable industry, and his familiarity 
with Provencal country life and language. The latter he 
spoke like a native. A language always seemed to come 
to him without effort. Meanwhile his leisure hours were 
given to philosophical studies, his holidays to botanical exeur- 
sions into the Cevennes and the Pyrenees. Inthe year 1853, 
a visit to England upon business relating to his father’s French 
estate, where it seemed probable that he was to spend his life, 
was followed by circumstances which gave him back to his 
native country. He brought to his Uncle Jeremy a French 
translation of the latter’s ‘“‘ Chrestomathia”’ ; he made the 
acquaintance of Sir James Edward Smith, Robert Brown, Lam- 
bert, Don, and the other English botanists of the day; visited 
Sir William, then Professor Hooker, at Glasgow, and Walker 
Arnott in Edinburgh ; took the latter with him the next sum- 
mer to France, where the two botanists herborized together 
in Languedoc and the Pyrenees ; and, returning to London, he 
accepted his uncle’s pressing invitation to remain and devote 
a portion of his time to the preparation of the latter’s manu- 
scripts for the press, at the same time pursuing legal studies at 
Linecoln’s Inn. He was in due time called to the bar, and in 
1832 he held his first and last brief. In that year Jeremy 
Bentham died, bequeathing most of his property to his nephew. 
This was much less than was expected, owing to bad manage- 
ment on his uncle’s part and to the extravagant sums spent 
by his executors in the publication of the philosopher's post- 
humous work. But it sufficed, in connection with the pater- 
nal inheritance, which fell to him in the year previous, for the 
modest independence which allowed of undistracted devotion 
to his favorite studies. These were for a time divided be- 
tween botany, jurisprudence, and logic, not to speak of edi- 
