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> [!example] See also [[Bennett, John Joseph|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Bennett, John Joseph (1801-1876), British botanist, studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, Member of the College of Surgeons 1825, assistant-keeper to Robert Brown at the British Museum 1827, keeper to the Botanical Dept. 1857-1870, secretary of the Linnean Society 1840-1860, retired 1870 to Maresfield, Sussex.
**Abbreviated name**: *Benn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Benn.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
see TL-2/1: 172.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 62; Barnhart 1: 163; BB p. 29; BM 1: 135; Bossert p. 34; CSP 1: 275; Desmond p. 57; DNB 4: 97-105; Frank 3(Anh.): 9; GF p. 49; Hortus 3: 1188; HR; IH 2: 68; Jackson p. 118, 396, 483; Kew 1: 214; MW p. 40; NI p. 13; PR 613, ed. 1: 709; Rehder 5(index): 69; SK 1: xxx, 4: c, cix; Sotheby 47; TL-1: 26; TL-2/1: 172; Tucker 1: 73; Zander ed. 10, p. 633, ed. 11, p. 720.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1888-1889: 32. 1891 (portr.).
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.461, 255.181. 1980.
- Carr, D.J. and S.G.M., eds., People and plants in Australia 154, 155. 1981.
- Carruthers, W., J. Bot. 14: 97-104. 1876 (main biogr., portr., b. 8 Jan 1801 Tottenham, d. 29 Feb 1876, Maresfield, Sussex; list of publ.).
- Gunther, A.E., Founders of Science at the British Museum 1753-1900. 1980 (see index).
- Hooker, W.J., J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 254-255. 1852 (rev. *Pl. jav. rar.*).
- Ilg, W., Hoppea 42: 318. 1984 (B. and Regensb. bot. Ges.).
- Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 42. 1957; Hist. fl. Middlesex 20. 1975.
- Kent, D.H. and D.E. Allen, British and Irish herb. 92. 1984.
- Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus 471 (index). 1985 (numerous entries).
- Maiden, J.H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 64. 1908.
- Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 9. 1906.
- Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 3(1): 9-12. 1848 (detailed review of *Pl. jav. rar.*).
- Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 283-284, 287-290, 294. 1981.
- Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 9. 1898.
- Woodward, B.B., Hist. Coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 30. 1904.
- Young, D.P., Proc. bot. Soc. Brit. Isl. 1(4): 490-491. 1955 (on herb. at the Croydon Natural History Society).
#### Composite works
Editor of *The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown*, London 1866-1868, see TL-2/838.