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Art. XVIL—Memorial of George Bentham; by Asa GRAY. 
[From the Report of the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
for the year 1884-5.) 
Intimate with Prince Potemkin, by whom he was induced to 
mnpress Catharine. He took part in a naval action against the 
Tur 
returned to England, where his inventive skill and experience 
pned a fitting field in the service of the Admiralty, in whic 
T attained the post of Inspector-General of Naval Works. 
the year 1805, Gen. Bentham 
a St. Petersburg to fae the building in Russia of 
€ssels for the British Ny 
ae no English, where he learned to converse fluently in 
of lan, French, and German, besides acquiring the rudiments 
Eng] tin as taught by a Russian priest. On the way back to 
gland two or three years later, the detention of a month or 
