Bennett, John J.  (1801 - 1876)

Secretary of the Linnean Society (London) from 1840-1860. Worked in the Botany Department, British Museum from 1827, Keeper of Botany from 1857-1870. He was Assistant to Robert Brown and legatee of his herbarium. It is usually stated that Bennett added numbers to Brown's Iter Australiense specimens, numbers which have often been mistaken for collector numbers (sometimes cited as 'Bennett numbers' in Flora of Australia), although Edwards (1976) suggests these numbers were added by James Britten (1846-1924) and Henry Trimen (1843-1896). Bennett described a few Australian species.
 

Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., ABRS. [consult for source references]