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George Bent ham, F.R.S. 
of New South Wales in 1878 ; but it was with great difficulty 
that he was prevailed upon to receive the Companionship 
of St. Michael and St. George, conferred on him by Her 
Majesty. He was a correspondent of the Institute of 
France, and member of the Academies of Science of Berlin, 
St. Petersburg, and America, and of many other scientific 
Societies that cultivate Natural History. 
Bentham died of old age at his house in Wilton Place, 
December 10, 1884, shortly after his eighty-fourth birthday, 
retaining his faculties to the last. His wife predeceased him 
by four years ; he never had any family. The bulk of his 
modest fortune went to his only relative, a great-niece 
residing in France, after liberal bequests to the Linnean 
Society and the scientific relief fund of the Royal Society, 
and of a considerable sum under trust to be expended in 
the interest of the herbarium at Kew, especially in continu- 
ing the publication of Hooker’s leones Plantarum, a work 
in which he took a great interest, having indeed provided 
the plates and letter-press of several volumes at his own 
expense. 
J. D. HOOKER. 
