- Robert Bentley
Robert Bentley (
March 25 ,1821 –December 24 ,1893 ) was an English botanist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume "Medicinal Plants", published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair.Life
Robert Bentley was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1821. While apprenticed to a pharmacist in
Tunbridge Wells , he developed an interest in botany. He subsequently studied medicine atKing's College London , and became a Member of theRoyal College of Surgeons in 1847 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1849.Bentley served as botany lecturer at the Medical School of the London Hospital, and in 1859 became Professor of Botany at
King's College London .In 1874, Bentley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and he served as joint editor of the "British Pharmacopeia" of 1885.
He died in 1893 and was buried at
Kensal Green Cemetery .Books by Bentley
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=mF4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=a+manual+of+botany&as_brr=1#PPR3,M1 "A Manual of Botany: including the structure, functions, classification, properties, and uses of plants, etc."] (1861), at Google Books
* "Characters, Properties, and Uses of Eucalyptus" (1874)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=X1sDAAAAQAAJ&dq=robert+bentley+botany&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=vD0cirOX3z&sig=1DzfIHFzBwQOjMIwNpRPt2Zou0Q#PPR1,M1 "Botany"] (1875, London)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=g_wCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=medicinal+plants+bentley&as_brr=1#PPP9,M1 "Medicinal Plants: being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties, and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value"] - written with Henry Trimen (1880, London, Churchill)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=3gEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=robert+bentley&as_brr=1#PPR3,M1 "The Student’s Guide to Structural, Morphological, and Physiological Botany"] (1883, London)
* "A Text-book of Organic Materia Medica, comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia, with other non-official medicines, etc." (1887)References
Further reading
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=1XkMXNmnFREC&pg=RA1-PA212&dq=robert+bentley+obituary&as_brr=1 The Annual Register] (1894, Longmans, Green, and Company, London, p. 212)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=qiYJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=bentley+kings+botany&source=web&ots=OIHc_3Z6rA&sig=i6DK5nzJU1JwN0MxawSaC9b4R6c Obituary] with biographical details in the "Dictionary of National Biography" (1901, Macmillan, New York, pages 181-182)
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