John Joseph Bennett

John Joseph Bennett

John Joseph Bennett (January 8, 1801 - February 29, 1876) was a British botanist.

Bennett was assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library at the British Museum from 1827 to 1858, when he succeeded Robert Brown as Keeper of the Botanical Department. He retired in 1870. He was secretary of the Linnean Society of London from 1840 to 1860. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1841.

On the evening of 30 June 1858, Charles Lyell and Joseph Dalton Hooker passed on to him papers by Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin, titled On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection respectively. As secretary of the Linnean Society at a meeting on the following evening, 1 June, he read out the papers together with a covering note by Lyell and Hooker. This was the joint publication by Darwin and Wallace of their papers setting out the theory of natural selection, which was received quietly at the time but attracted wide interest when Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" eighteen months later.

References

*Harvard reference
Surname1 = Darwin
Given1 = Charles
Authorlink1 = Charles Darwin
Surname2 = Wallace
Given2 = Alfred Russel
Authorlink2 = Alfred Russel Wallace
Year = 1858
Title = On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection
Publisher = Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3: 46-50.
URL = http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F350&viewtype=text&pageseq=1 Retrieved on 2007-06-14 – at the foot of the covering letter (p. 46),
"J. J. Bennett, Esq., Secretary of the Linnean Society."
*Harvard reference
Surname1 = Desmond
Given1 = Adrian
Surname2 = Moore
Given2 = James
Authorlink2 = James Moore (biographer)
Year = 1991
Title = Darwin
Publisher = London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Group
ID = ISBN 0-7181-3430-3
*Harvard reference
Surname1 = van Wyhe
Given1 = John
Year = 2006
Title = Charles Darwin: gentleman naturalist: A biographical sketch
URL = http://darwin-online.org.uk/darwin.html Retrieved on 2006-12-15


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