Robert Bentley (botanist)

Robert Bentley (* Hitchin, England, March 25, 1821 - England, December 24, 1893) was a British professor and botanist.

Biography

While an apothecary's apprentice in Tunbridge Wells, he developed an interest in Botany. He would study Medicine at King's College London, and would be elected a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1847 and of the Linnean Society of London in 1849.

Robert Bentley, professor of botany, wrote and edited several botany manuals for educational purposes.
In collaboration with Trimen, he prepared a book on the main medicinal plants used as curative remedies in Medicine, with original figures, descriptions, properties, parts that are used as remedies, and products obtained from them, in 4 volumes and more than 300 illustrations. hand colored.

Works

• A Manual of Botany: including the structure, functions, classification, properties, and uses of plants, etc. Bentley, Robert. 1861-1887
• Botany Bentley, Robert. 1875
• 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 Bentley, Robert & Trimen, Henry. 4 Volumes in 42 parts. 1880
• The Student’s Guide to Structural, Morphological, and Physiological Botany Bentley, Robert. 1883
• The Student's Guide To Systematic Botany Bentley, Robert. 1884
• A Text-book of Organic Matter Medica, comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia, with other non-official medicines, etc. Bentley, Robert. 1887

• The abbreviation "Bentley" is used to indicate Robert Bentley as an authority in the scientific description and classification of vegetables.