Robert Bentley (botanist)

Robert Bentley

Robert Bentley (born March 25, 1821 in Hitchin , Hertfordshire , † December 24, 1893 in Kensington , London ) was a British doctor and botanist.

Live and act

In Tunbridge Wells , Bently was apprenticed to the druggist William Maddock, and he began to learn botany there. He then worked as an assistant at the pharmaceutical chemists Bell in Oxford Street, London . He studied medicine at King's College London and in 1847 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England , in 1849 a member of the London Linnaeus Society. In King's College in London, he succeeded Anthony Todd Thomson (1778-1849) professor of botany at the School of Pharmacy and, in 1853, succeeded Pereira as professor of materia medica .

Works

• A manual of botany: including the structure, classification, properties, uses, and functions of plants . J. & A. Churchill, London 1861 (digitized version) , 2nd edition 1870 (digitized version) , 4th edition 1882 (digitized version) , 5th edition 1887 (digitized version)
• Together with Frederic John Farre (1804–1886) and Robert Warington (1838–1907). Manual of materia medica & therapeutics: being an abridgment of the late Dr. Pereira’s elements of materia medica arranged in conformity with the British pharmacopia, and adapted to the use of medical practitioners, chemists and druggists, medical and pharmaceutical students. Longmans and Green, London 1865 (digitized version)
• On the study of Botany in connection with Pharmacy. In: Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions , 2nd series, Volume 8 (1866–67), Churchill, London 1867, pp. 108–118: (digitized version )
• On the characters, properties, and uses of Eucalyptus Globulus and other species of Eucalyptus . Taylor and Francis, London 1874 (digitized version)
• Together with Henry Trimen . Medicinal plants. J. & A. Churchill, London 1880
  • Volume 1 (No 001-069) Ranunculaceae - Anacardiaceae (digitized version )
  • Volume 2 (No 070-146) Leguminosae - Valeriaceae (digital copy )
  • Volume 3 (No 147-227) Compositae - Thymelaceae (digitized version )
  • Volume 4 (No 228-306) Artocarpaceae - Algae (digitized version ) . Index (digitized version)
• Physiological botany: an abridgement of The students' guide to structural, morphological, and physiological botany . Appleton & Comp. New York 1886 (digitized version)
• 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 ... Longmans and Green, London 1887 (digitized version)

literature

• Ernst Julius Gurlt and August Hirsch . Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume I, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1885, pp. 308–09 (digitized version )