106 A. Gray—Memorial of George Bentham. 
executors in the publication of the philosopher's posthumous 
works. But it sufficed, in connection with the paternal inherit- 
ance, which fell to him the year previous, for the modest inde- 
pendence which allowed of undistracted devotion to his favorite 
studies. These were for a time divided between botany, juris- 
prudence, and logic, not to speak of editorial work upon his 
father’s papers relating to the management of the navy and the 
administration of the national doc rds. 
The first publication was botanical, and was published in 
Paris, in the year. 1826, his Catalogue des Plantes Indigee 
des Pyrénées el du Bas Languedoc. To this is prefixed a 
interesting narrative of a hianceal tour in the Pyrenees, oat 
some remarks upon the mode of preparing such catalogues 1D 
order to their greatest utility, remarks which already evince the 
wisdom for which he was teckel | in after years. He also 
reformed and re-elaborated four difficult genera of see district, 
Cerastium, Orobanche, Helianthemum, and Medicago. The 
next, perhaps, was an article upon wiibalion<< hol dig 
agreeing with his Soe attracted the attention of 
Brougham, Hume and O’ ll; also one upon the laws 
affecting larceny, which Sir Tobe Peel complimented and 
made use of, and another on the law of real property. 
ut his most considerable work of the period received scant 
attention at the time from those most interested in the subject, 
and passed from its birth into oblivion, from whieh only im 
these later years has it igen apargee oe without word or sign 
from its author. This work (of 287 octavo pages) was oe 
lished in London in 1827, uaien the title of “Outline of a 
System of Logic, with a ‘critical examination of Dr. Whately’s 
Elements of Logic.” It was in this book that the ee - 
in such 
tion of the predicate was first systematically applie 
wise that Stanley-Jevons* declares it to be “ « undoubt tedly the 
Hosier to whom the x sae the tpt of ie 
ilton’s article on n logic i in the Edinburgh ees for ve 1833, is 
once or twice referred to in the article, is a dozen years later, | 
in the course of the controversy with De Morgan, Sir Mee 
* In Contemporary Review, — 1873, p. 823. 
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