Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bentley, Robert
BENTLEY, Robert, F.L.S., a botanist, who has more particularly directed attention to the applications of botany to medicine. He was born at Hitchin, Herts, in 1825, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1847. He is Dean of the Medical Faculty, Honorary Fellow, and Professor of Botany in King's College, London; Honorary member of, and Professor of Materia Medica and Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; Honorary member of the American Pharmaceutical Association; Professor of Botany in the London Institution; Examiner in Botany to the Boyal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Member of the Council, and Chairman of the Garden Committee of the Royal Botanic Society of London; and was formerly Lecturer on Botany at the Medical Colleges of the London, Middlesex, and St. Mary's Hospitals. Professor Bentley was President of the British Pharmaceutical Conferences in 1866 and 1867. He has contributed numerous articles to the Pharmaceutical Journal, of which for ten years he was one of the editors. He has written a "Manual of Botany," which has reached the fourth edition; has jointly edited two editions of Pereira's Materia Medica and Therapeutics; is the author of an elementary work on Botany, in the series of Manuals of Elementary Science, published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowlodge; and has, in conjunction with Dr. Trimen, brought out an illustrated work on Medicinal Plants, in four volumes. Professor Bentley has also published a Series of Papers "On New American Remedies," a Lecture "On the Characters, Properties, and Uses of Eucalyptus globulus," "Lectures on the Organic Materia Medica of the British Pharmacopœia," and various other Lectures and Papers on Botany and Materia Medica.