Robert Bentley 786721 208948029 2008-04-29T07:24:04Z Rhanyeia 4370225 abbreviation place, add <references/> [[Image:Bentley Robert signature.jpg|thumb|right|Bentley's signature]] '''Robert Bentley''' ([[March 25]], [[1821]] – [[December 24]], [[1893]]) was an [[United Kingdom|English]] [[botany|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 at [[King's College London]], and became a Member of the [[Royal 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 == [[Image:Bentley Trimen lesser galangal.png|thumb|100 px|right|[[Lesser galangal]] shown in a plate from ''Medicinal Plants'' (1880)]] * [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) {{botanist|Bentley|Bentley, Robert}} == References == <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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bentley, Robert}} [[Category:1821 births]] [[Category:1893 deaths]] [[Category:English botanists]] {{UK-scientist-stub}} [[es:Robert Bentley]] [[fr:Robert Bentley]] [[pt:Robert Bentley]] [[ru:Бентли, Роберт]]