These in a strict sense commenced in ISJ1, when Sir \V. Hooker 
became Director of the Royal Gardens, and continued throughout 
successor. But having regard to the fact that the Library and 
Herbarium of the Royal Gardens were the foil* fit or'ujo of the 
ture, and the depository of the proofs of its labours, Bentham's 
services in the formation of these must count, and they antedate 
the foregoing by 18 years. It was in 1.S23, when a resident in the 
South of France, that he visited England and took the opportunity 
of going to Glasgow to present letters of introduction to Dr. (after- 
■ asgowtopr. 
ards Sir William) Ho< 
The two botanists foregathered on the 
spot. Each was forming a botanical library and herbarium, their 
scientific interests were one and the same, their friendship grew 
during thn. - I U-ntham to Glasgow and ripened 
into a life-long one. In LSfjI, finding that his income could not 
meet the demands for space of his rapidly enlarging library and 
herbarium, Bentham, with the Director's cordial approval, offered 
these to the Government for the use of the Royal Gardens. 
and they were, after some demur, accepted with the condition 
that they should be permanently attached to that institution and 
be accessible to scientific botanists. It must be borne in mind 
that up to that time the Royal Gardens possessed neither of these 
necessary implements for the conduct of its duties, the desideratum 
being supplied by the Director's private Library and herbarium, 
the latter the most complete in existence ; nor was it till after his 
the treasurer accumulated l,y ,|,, D,,,,.,,,,. XV( . n , insetted from the 
auctioneer^ hammer by the Government and the two Kew Herbaria 
From is:>i till his decease Bentham resided in London, and 
during those of) years he, with annual intervals of a few weeks for 
r psl - repaired for five days a week to the Herbarium, arriving 
punctually at lu a.m. and leaving at -1 p.m.. never breaking his 
long fast of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Here he wrote his two Colonial 
H T 1 — H»'».l twh*is and An*tr«lir„si — Handbook of the 
linftsh Flora, his successive classical annual addresses to the 
Linnean Society, the <}no>ra Pbmtonnn. and a host of minor 
botanical essays: here. too. he concluded the formation for the 
University of Cambridge of a c< mi of 30,1X10 
named species from duplicates of his own ami that of his friend. 
Dr. Lemann, which had been left by the will of its founder to 
that university, subject to a selection bv Bentham for his own 
purpose. This labour occupi.-d him fur ten Years continuously 
and was gratuitous, the univ.-r- ; „. r al ,d the 
- the specimens. During the whole of this 
■ ^''y'v: W ;' 1V :ir tl»e disposal of the Director and of 
the officials of the Garden and H A . v i 1( . lv his 
vast knowledge, experience, and sagacity were -o,mht 
