898 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ness, prevented many from appreciating his fine disposition and 
generous qualities. 
The first hundred pages, which are largely drawn from Bent- 
ham’s MS. autobiography, contain many references to — < 
the early part of the last century—Hooker, Brown, Wallic 
bert, Lindley, Arnott, cee others,—but abound in details aisicls, “ib 
seems to me, can be o no posible interest to anyone. is 
o— reaching Calais it was so rough that no packets dared 
venture out for two — then turning fair, with smooth water, 
the boat might have s twa “but the Marchioness of aie had 
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passage wasmade. The ciel from Dover, slept at con apy 
eae oes oe iy 12th September, and the whole family dined a 
eremy 
Surely this is cs uninteresting as the details in one of Mr. Henry 
James’s later novels! and Mr. Jackson's style is not that of 
Mr. Henry James. On the same page (p. 51) we have the fol- 
lowing :—‘‘ George received a special invitation to dine with his 
uncle ; after dinner he suggested that George should undertake to 
prepare his uncle’s works for printing ; ; he co: onsented to give two 
evenings weekly to this object;” and again—‘‘ Bentham was 
entered at Lincoln’s Inn on 21st October, to his amelie s disgust, as 
he was apt to inveigh against law, though bred a barrister, as en- 
tailing insincerity and hinting that the relations between the two 
would be imperilled.” Su sentences abound throughout the 
f 
(whom Asa ie considered “a very good pam ”) he gio to 
dry plants, until his death in 1884, botany occupied an important 
place in Bentham’s life, and indeed became his absorbing interest. 
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book to the British Flora (which, from he own ita oint, was an 
admirable introduction to its oh and Miah Sir Joseph Hooker) 
the monumental Genera Plantarum. He was indeed an 
fatigable worker ; for cenge thirty years he Pile a daily at the 
Kew Herbariu um, arriving at ten and baer without any interval 
for refreshment until four or five. He w warmly devoted to the 
interests of Kew; in 1854 he siiouiiibad his herbarium 
every occasion when such action seemed to him called for, set forward 
its claims, somewhat to the disparagement of the National Herbarium 
at the British Museum, That herbarium, indeed, he consulted as 
