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40: 716: 743: 250: 731: 207:. Bennett was awarded the honorary gold medal of the Royal College of Surgeons in recognition of his contributions to zoological science. Bennett went to Australia again in 1836 and established a successful practice as a physician at Sydney. However he kept up his general interest in science, and acted as honorary secretary of the 196: 275:, and other journals. The variety of his interests may be suggested by the fact that he published in 1871 papers on "A Trip to Queensland in Search of Fossils" and on "The Introduction, Cultivation and Economic Uses of the Orange and Others of the Citron Tribe". 359:. They had two sons and three daughters. He married Charlotte James Elliott (c. 1817 – 20 February 1853) on 10 December 1846; they had one son. He married Sarah Jane Adcock on 4 January 1854; their two children died as infants. 564: 862: 188:, vol. I, pp. 229–58, "Notes on the Natural History and Habits of the Ornithorhyncus paradoxus, Blum", one of the earliest papers of importance written on the 177:, and Bennett became so interested that on leaving England shortly afterwards for Australia he determined while in that country to find a solution of the question. 384:
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China: being the journal of a naturalist in those countries, during 1832, 1833 and 1834 (Vol. 2)
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Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China: being the journal of a naturalist in those countries, during 1832, 1833 and 1834 (Vol. 1)
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In May 1832 Bennett left Plymouth on a voyage which terminated almost exactly two years later. An account of this appeared in 1834 in two volumes under the title
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and the Acclimatization Society, and was a vice-president of the Zoological Society, and a member of the board of the Australian Museum.
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in 1890 for his valuable contributions to the natural history of Australia. Bennett died in Sydney on 29 September 1893.
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Bennett married three times: on 28 November 1835 to Julia Anne Ludovina Cameron (c. 1820 – 15 June 1846), daughter of
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and on his return studied for the medical profession, initially at Plymouth, later at the Middlesex Hospital and the
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London: Richard Bentley, University of Hong Kong Libraries, Digital Initiatives, China Through Western Eyes
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After qualifying as a physician Bennett obtained employment as a ship's surgeon, and visited Sydney,
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deposited in the Australian Museum which was published in 1837. In 1860 he brought out his
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National Library of Australia: Wanderings & Gatherings, Travels of a Surgeon–Naturalist
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was engaged in examining the structure and relations of the mammary glands of the
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Bennett was 84 years of age when he contributed the chapter on "Mammals" to the
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A Catalogue of the Specimens of Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosities
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In 1833, Bennett lent support in absentia to the founding of what became the
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Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China
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Stitz, Charles (June 2011). "The story of Australian book collectors".
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He left a large library of books on Australiana that was purchased by
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Casuarius bennettii, Dendrolagus bennettianus, Myrrophis bennetti
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and other scientists of the time. He was much interested in the
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Bennett is commemorated in the scientific names of the
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Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
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Acclimatisation: its eminent adaptation to Australia
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Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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George Bennett (disambiguation)

Plymouth
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naturalist
Clarke Medal
Plymouth
Ceylon
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New South Wales
Richard Owen
Ornithorhyncus
platypus

Royal Entomological Society of London
Australian Museum
chambered nautilus
Darwin
Sydney Botanic Gardens
Sumatran
Erromangan
New Hebrides

The Lancet
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
Royal Society of New South Wales

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