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THE LATE GEORGE BENTHAM, F.RB.S. 
By B. D. Jackson, Src. L.S. 
(Wire Porrrarr). - 
his decease. The short account which we here present to our 
readers has been drawn up from recently published material, and 
from memory of conversations, extending over some years, with the 
deceased botanist. 
Gzorcz Breyrnam was born at Stoke, in Hampshire, a village 
near Portsmouth, on September 22nd, 1800, the Coronation Day 
of George III., so that he was accustomed to say that when he 
was a boy, a royal salute used to be fired on his birthday. He was 
the second son of General (afterwards Sir Samuel) Bentham, and 
the eldest daughter of Dr. George Fordyce. In 1805 General 
Bentham was sent by the English Government to St. Petersburg, 
Where the family resided until 1807; here George acquired his 
knowledge of the Russian and Scandinavian langua 
Plan which at once commended itself to his methodical mind. 
Gathering the first plant he saw, he tried to run it down by the aid 
of the book, and was long hindered by the articulation of the 
Stamens of his subject, Salvia pratensis; but persevering, he 
succeeding in determining it, and his success induced him to prose- 
cute the stud 
