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INDEX 



Bell, T., i. 408 n. ; as Pres. Linn. Soc., 

 408; on the R. S. medal, 417; 

 ii. 56, 301 



Bellinghausen, i. 51 



Bennett, A. W., translates Sachs, 

 ii. 153 n. ; at the Darwin- Wallace 

 paper, 301 



Bennett, J. J., i. 177 and note, 379 



Bentham, George, i. 167 n. ; written 

 to from Sikkim, 316 ; the only 

 first-rate monographer, 340 ; aid 

 in Fl. Indica, 356 ; plans Gen. PL 

 with, 365; unselfish love of 

 science, 376 ; his Herbarium de- 

 scribed, 378 n., given to Kew, 430, 

 v. infra, ii. 47; popular illustr. 

 of botany at Brit. Mus., 381 ; Pres. 

 Linn. Soc., 405 ; botanical rank, 

 417 and ii. 260 ; persuaded not 

 to abandon botany, 430 ; settles in 

 Kew and London, 431 and note ; 

 validity of species, 441 ; researches 

 lead him to ' lump ' species, 453, 

 455 ; his idiosyncrasy in ' Ex- 

 ceptional Orders,' 458 ; habit and 

 species, 475, 478 ; 'adopts English 

 botanical names, 479 ; agitated by 

 the 'Origin,' 511, 520; x Club 

 guest, 544 



ii. 3 ; share in Gen. PI., 18 sq., 

 21 sq., 241 ; relation to De Can- 

 dolle, 19, 21, 22; accepts Dar- 

 winism, 21, 113 sq. ; gives library 

 and herbarium to Kew, 47, 206 ; 

 in J. D. H.'s inner circle, 68; on 

 Norwich Address, 120 ; aid in 

 Ayrton affair, 171 ; attire, 178 ; 

 death, 260; leaves J. D. H. his 

 British Flora, ib., 267, 275, and 

 papers, 280, 435 ; legacy for the 

 Icones, i. 15, ii. 275 ; position as 

 botanist, 260 ; his work in the 

 Gen. PI., 277 ; early and late, on 

 Euphorbia, value of, 280 ; memoir, 

 379; Australian Flora, 387; a 

 variety or a species, 466 



Letters to : i. 102 n. ; tropical 

 exploration, 167 ; Flora Antarctica, 

 168, and Galapagos plants, 169, 

 and W. J. H.'s Herbarium, 169 ; 

 Planchon, 175 n. ; Fossil and 

 Modern Botany for Geol. Survey, 

 212; his father's modesty, 349; 

 thinks of leaving Kew and botany, 

 351 ; they are both ' limed to the 

 twig,' 352; appointed Assistant 



Director : temporary indifference 

 to change, 352 ; Fl. Indica, Thom- 

 son agrees as to species, 357 ; 

 vast material, ib. ; hindrances to 

 Thomson's and his own work, 

 ib. ; work on Indian Herbarium, 

 361, 362 bis; Tasmanian Flora 

 and overwork, 362 sq. ; the Him. 

 Journ. and practical philosophy, 

 364; treatment of, by E. I. 0., 

 ib. ; juror at 1851 Exhibition, 365 ; 

 botany depressed, 370 ; Introd. 

 Essay to Fl. Ind., 374; lectures 

 at R. I. proposed, 377; Sunday 

 aft. opening of Kew, ib. ; Cam- 

 bridge taught the value of a Her- 

 barium, 384 ; his British Flora, 

 390; needed to reform Linn. Soc., 

 408 ; R. S. medals and botany, 

 418 ; botanical laws, 421 ; distrust 

 of Schleiden, 422; careful exami- 

 nation reduces species, ib. ; on 

 coming to Kew, 430 ; attachment 

 to home, 431 ; Paris and Germany 

 in 1855, 434 ; limits of species, 

 466 ; Nees, his insufficiency of 

 specimens, 466 ; many specimens 

 break down characters, 467 ; 

 Klotzsch's and others' wholesale 

 species-making, 467 sq. ; reforms 

 in N.Z. Fl., and in Introd. Fl. Ind., 

 471 ; the Tasmanian Essay, 484, 

 485 ; less overwork at night, 537 



The Ayrton affair, ii. 165 ; Rome, 

 252 



Bentham, Jeremy, i. 35 n., 167 n. 



Berberis, i. 438 ; species of, 468 



Berkeley, Rev. M. J., i. 84 and note, 

 131, 176, 220 n. ; visit to, 220, 257 ; 

 writes to, from Sikkim, 316; the 

 Him. Journ., a pole-star of his 

 life, 363 ; as a working professor, 

 383 ; curious knowledge of plants, 

 403 n. ; Introd. to Cryptogamic 

 Botany, review of, 477, 479 ; his 

 ' country parson ' style, 477 sq. 



On acclimatisation, ii. 37; aid in 

 1865, 69; Magee's sermon, 119 



Letters to : Civil List pensions, 

 i. 415; W. J. H. and the French 

 Academy, 419; on inducing 

 varieties, 452 



Bertero, i. 43 7, 442 



Bewicke, Mrs. Calverley, ii. 190 ; 

 sketch of Hooker's home life, 

 191-7 



