854 ' GEORGE BENTHAM. 
some years before. Under his close methodical application the 
farms and vineyards rapidl improved, and were very profital le, 
but he did not neglect his botany, for he found time for herboriza- 
tions in the Pyrenees and the Cevennes, and spare hours were 
given to translating his uncle Jeremy Bentham’s Chrestomathia 
into French. 
small importance. During these six years his life was one 0 
incessant mental activity. Besides the work he accomplished for 
n 1827 he published his « Outlines of a new System of Logic,” 
with a criticism of Dr. Whateley’s Elements, in which the 
doctrine of the quantification of the predicate is for the first tame 
set forth ; only a few copies of this work were disposed of, when 
the publishers’ failed, and the stock was sold as waste paper. Pro- 
ably it was owing to this that not until 1850 was Bentham’s dis- 
covery recognised in the ‘Atheneum’ for December 31st, and a 
dispute as to Sir William Hamilton’s claims to the same was 
raised, but has been adjudicated in favour of Bentham. : 
In 1826 he was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 
the following year was proposed by Robert Brown for the Royal 
Society, but withdrew his candidature in common with several 
other scientific men, on the election of a President not in accord- 
ance with their views. 
