George Bentham
George Bentham
George Bentham CMG FRSwas an English botanist, characterised by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 September 1800
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began carelessly collected hundred perhaps
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
decided determination devote enable means period repent sufficient
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.