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spondent of G. Johnston. Hist. Berw. Field Club, viii. 31. 

 Agaricus BellicB Berk. 



Bell, George (1755-84) : b. GreenhiU, Dumfries, 1755 ; d. Man- 

 chester, Jan., 1784. M.D. Edinburgh, 1777. ' De physiologia 

 plantarum,' 1777. Transl., with Memoir, Mem. Manchester 

 Soc. ii. 397 ; Baillon, i. 395. 



Belt, Thomas (1882-78) : b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1832 ; d. 

 Denver, Colorado, 21 Sept., 1878. Traveller. ' Naturahst 

 in Nicaragua,' 1874. Contrib. to ' Fl. Northumberland and 

 Durham.' Jacks. 368 : i. 264 ; vii. 132 ; E. S. C. ix. 182 ; 

 Gard. Chron. 1878, ii. 478; Trans. Northumb. and Durham, 

 vii. 235 ; Proc. Geol. Soc. 1878-9, 48 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iv. 204. 



Bennet, Rev. William (d. 1805). Minister of Duddingston, 

 1786-1805. Drowned in D. Loch. Art. ' Duddingston,' in 

 Sinclair, Stat. Ace. Scotl. xviii. 376, containing accoimt of flora. 



Bennett, Edward (fl. 1852-53). Collected in Cornwall and 

 New Forest. Phyt. o.s. iv. 1, 753 ; E. S. C. i. 273 ; Journ. 

 Bot. 1872, 223. 



Bennett, Edward Turner (1797-1836) : b. Hackney, London, 

 6 Jan. 1797 ; d. 21 Aug., 1836. Elder brother of J. J. Bennett. 

 Surgeon. Zoologist. Edited White's Selborne (1837). 

 Assisted J. E. Gray in ' Nat. Arr. of Brit. PI.' Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. iv. 241. 



Bennett, Frederick Debell (fl. 1840). F.E.C.S. ; F.E.G.S. 

 ' Catalogue of Plants collected during the Tuscan's Voyage ' 

 in ' Narrative of a Whahng Voyage, 1833-36,' 1840. Pritz. 21. 



Bennett, John Joseph (1801-76) : b. Tottenham, Middlesex, 

 8 Jan., 1801; d. Maresfield, Sussex, 29 Feb., 1876. 

 M.E.C.S., 1825 ; F.L.S., 1828 ; Sec. L.S., 1840-60 ; F.E.S., 

 1841. Assistant-Keeper, Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus., 1827. Keeper, 

 1857-70. 'Plantse Javanicae,' 1838-52. Pritz. 21; Jacks. 

 521 ; E. S. C. i. 275 ; Journ. Bot. 1876, 97, with portr. ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. iv. 246. Oil-portr. by Eddis and bust by Weekes 

 at Linn. Soc, Kew, and Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus. Bennettia E. 

 Br. ^= Gremostachys Tulasne. Bennettia Gray = Saussiorea 

 DC. Bennettia Miquel. Bennettites (fossil) Carruthers. 



Bennett, John Whitchurch (fl. 1830). F.L.S., 1828. ' Coco- 

 nut Pahn,' 1831. Jacks. 208. 



Bennett, William (fl. 1844). Ferns of N. Wales, Phyt. iii. 

 709. Discovered Teucrmm Botrys, 1844. Id. 737. Fl. 

 Herefordsh., pref. 



Benson, Rev. Thomas (1802-87) : b. Cockermouth, Cumber- 

 land, Oct., 1802 ; d. Great Fambridge, Essex, 9 June, 1887. 

 B.A. Cantab., 1824. Vicar of Great Fambridge, 1832. 

 Contributed to Gibson's ' Flora of Essex.' Herbarium be- 

 queathed to Essex Field Club. 



Bentall, Thomas (fl. 1845-62). Of Halstead, Essex. Manu- 

 factured a drying paper. Contributed to Gibson's ' Flora of 

 Essex,' and Phyt. ii. and iii. Halstead Plants, Phyt. ii 

 409. E. S. C. i. 280. 



Bentham, George (1800-84) : b. Stoke, near Plymouth, 22 

 Sept., 1800 ; d. London, 10 Sept., 1884. LL.D. Camb., 1874 ; 



