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I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

~George Bentham

Topics: Any Botany Career Decided Determination Devote Enable Had Long Long Period Me Means Myself Never Occasion Period Reason Repent Subsequent Sufficient Were Which

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I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

~George Bentham

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: September 22nd, 1800

Died: September 10th, 1884

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