114 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
It was not, however, until 1868 that Alfred definitely devoted 
himself to botany. For ten years before this he had been a publisher 
in Bishopsgate Street; he was the first to use photography in book- 
illustration, and introduced to the public various minor poets, in- 
cluding one who takes a front rank among them, if indeed he cannot 
claim a higher place—the late Lord De Tabley. In the same year 
he joined the Linnean Society; he had taken his M.A. degree at 
the London University about 1856, and later his B.Sc. From this 
took an active part in botanical work in this country: he 
was a frequent attendant, up to his death, at the meetings of the 
Linnean and Royal Microscopical Societies, and at the gatherings 
of the British Association; and contributed papers to the proceedings 
of each of these bodies. He was also for many years Lecturer on 
Botany at St. Thomas’s Hospital and at Bedford College. 
ennett’s contributions to botanical literature were considerable. 
Many papers which appeared in the publications of the above-name 
Societies stand under his name in the Royal Society’s Catalogue of 
Scientific Papers; others appeared at intervals in this Journal, to the 
first volume of which he contributed; and some, more popular, in the 
Popular Science Review. e was at one time biological sub-editor 
for Nature, for many years botanical reviewer for the Academy, and 
up to the time of his death principal editor of the Royal Micro- 
scopical Society’s Journal. He also published numerous articles 
on the subject of fertilization. 
ennett’s contributions to systematic work were fairly numerous. 
He monographed the Hydroleacee (on which he had earlier published 
a memoir), Pedalinee@, and Polygalacee for Martius’s Hlora Brasili- 
similar paper on those of Surrey in the volume for 1902. 
His most important work in the way of text-books was the 
English version of Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik ; this he translated 
and edited for the Clarendon Press in 1875, with some assistance 
from Mr. W. T. T. (afterwards Sir W. Thiselton-) Dyer. In 1877 
he performed a similar office for Thomé’s Textbook; this trans- 
lation went through several editions: he also helped Dr. Masters 
with the fourth edition (1884) of Henfrey’s Klementary Course. 
In 1889, in conjunction with Mr. George Murray, Bennett pro- 
duced A Handbook of Cryptogamie Botany, of which the longest 
review that ever appeared in our pages was contributed by the late 
Perey Myles to this Journal for the same year. Bennett undertook 
the Vascular Cryptogams, Mosses, Algw, and Schizophycee. 
Tn 1886 Bennett issued he Tourist’s Guide to the Flora of the 
Alps—an English version of Dalla Torre’s book on the subject 
He had previously prepared a translation of Seboth’s Alpine Plants 
painted from Nature, a book useful mainly on account of its illus- 
trations; and in 1896 he published The Flora of the Alps, for the 
pictures of which no good word can be said. This is, indeed, the 
least satisfactory of Bennett’s works, although it was honoured 
