64 J. H. MAIDEN. 
sent botanical collectors to various parts of the world 
(including Australia), and received their seeds and collec- 
tions of plants for Kew, and their dried plants for his own 
herbarium, which, with his library, was the most celebrated 
botanical institution of its time. His botanist-librarians 
were successively Solander, Dryander, and Robert Brown 
(who survived him). He was the patron of the Bauers and 
other botanical artists. His herbarium is in the British 
Museum. He ever identified himself with Australian 
interests, and all that I know of his botanical activities 
will be found in my “‘Life of Sir Joseph Banks, the Father 
of Australia,’’ now in the press, 
Bennett, John Joseph (1801 —1876). Born at Tottenham, 
8th January, 1801. M.R.C.S., F.R.S., Fellow and Secretary 
from 1840—1860, of the Linnean Society. Appointed in 
1827 to the Botanical Department of the British Museum, 
where he was keeper from 1857 to 1870. Author of Plantce 
Javanicee rariores, 1838-52. Died at Maresfield, Sussex, 
29th February, 1876. The genus Bennettia and the fossil 
Bennettites are named in his honour. At Kew there isa 
plaster cast from a bust modelled in 1871, by H. Weekes, 
R.A. (Clean shaven face turned slightly to the left, neck 
bare) (8). See also Proc. Linn. Soc. (1875-80) 4; Journ. 
Bot. 1876, 97-104, which is an admirable account of him, 
with a portrait. He was assistant to Robert Brown and 
legatee of his herbarium. He described a few Australian 
plants. Had charge of the old Australian collections at 
the British Museum and authorised the distribution of the 
duplicates to various herbaria which took place soon after 
his death in 1876. 
Bentham, George (1800—84). Bornat Stoke, Plymouth, 
England, 22nd September, 1800, died in London, 10th 
September, 1884. As to Bentham’s share in the “Flora 
Australiensis,’’ a work which has laid Australian botanists 
