John Joseph Bennett
John Joseph Bennett | |
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| Born | 8 January 1801 |
| Died | 29 February 1876 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Benn. |
John Joseph Bennett (8 January 1801 – 29 February 1876) was a British physician and
botanist. He was the younger brother of the zoologist Edward Turner Bennett
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Life and work
Bennett was born in Tottenham and was educated in Enfield where his contemporaries included
Leopoldina in 1864. He retired in 1870 from the British Museum, leaving London to live in Maresfield, East Sussex where he died from a heart condition and is buried in the graveyard of Maresfield Church.[2]
His gravestone has the inscription "He quitted London retiring from the world and its cares to end his days in the peace and quietude of his secluded country home." A bust by Weekes was placed in the British Museum.
On the evening of 30 June 1858,
On the Origin of Species
eighteen months later.
The standard author abbreviation Benn. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ Jackson 1885.
- ^ Carruthers, William (1876). "John Joseph Bennett". Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 14: 97–105.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Benn.
References
- Jackson, Benjamin Daydon (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Darwin, Charles; Wallace, Alfred Russel (1858), "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 3 (9): 46–50, , retrieved 14 June 2007
- ISBN 0-7181-3430-3
- van Wyhe, John (2006), Charles Darwin: gentleman naturalist: A biographical sketch Retrieved 2006-12-15
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