BENNETT (Alfred William, F.L.S., 1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital)

Autograph Letter Signed to  Robert Morton MIDDLETON , jr., F.L.S., F.Z.S., (1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), saying he is "very glad to find that any of my autographs are of value ... to your collection ... Of the portraits I am afraid you will be disappointed to find ... that some of them are faded. The one of Admiral Fitzroy looks very spotty, but a little paint would set that all right, a process which all photographs go through before they are sent out. I did not see either of the plants that you name at Rievaulx. The flowering plants that interested me most ... were Primula farinosa & Epipactes palustris at Rievaulx ... But I was working more at Freshwater Algae" and pressing his correspondent to visit him, 3 sides 8vo., 6 Park Village East, Regent's Park, N.W., 18th September

Bennett translated and edited Julius Sachs' 'Lehrbuch der Botanik', 1875, and collaborated in 'Handbook of cryptogamic Botany', 1889.
Middleton was employed at one time by the Hartlepools Shipowners' Society. About 1886 he and his wife settled in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains. He corresponded with many leading naturalists, collected autographs, and presented a herbarium of some 3000 American and other specimens to McGill University in December 1890, returning permanently to England in 1892. With his wife and sister he spent 1904-1907 as a missionary in Chile. Again returning, he took a house in Kew and was a Temporary Assistant at the Natural History Museum till 1909.


Item Date:  1883

Stock No:  13898      £40

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