WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY. 341 
1856. The algological collections of these three laborious 
years, or the Australian portion of them, formed the subject 
of Professor Harvey’s third great illustrated work, and one of 
the most exquisite of the kind, the “ Phycologia Australica,” 
the serial publication of which began in 1858 and was con- 
cluded in 1868, in five imperial octavo volumes, each of sixty 
colored plates. All but the last century of plates were put 
upon stone by the author. 
Upon Dr. Harvey’s return in 1856 from his long expedition 
he found the chair of botany in the University of Dublin 
vacated by the appointment of Dr. Allman to that of natural 
history in the University of Edinburgh; and he was at once 
preferred to the position which he had sought when younger 
and freer, and which he now occupied till his death. The ex- 
hausting duties of this chair, and of that which he still held in 
the Royal Dublin Society, undiminished by the transference 
to the government Museum of Irish Industry, did not pre- 
vent Professor Harvey from entering with unabated ardor 
upon an undertaking of greater magnitude than any preced- 
ing one. This was the “ Flora Capensis,” a full systematic 
account of all the plants of the Cape Colony and the adjacent 
provinces of Caffraria and Natal,—in which he was asso- 
ciated with Dr. Sonder of Hamburg. Three thick octavo 
volumes of this work have appeared, the last in 1865, includ- 
ing the Composite. Along with this Dr. Harvey — learn- 
ing for the purpose another form of lithographic drawing — 
brought out, between the years 1859 and 1864, two volumes 
of his “ Thesaurus Capensis, or Ilustrations of the South 
African Flora,” comprising two hundred plates of interesting 
phznogamous plants. A complete list of his publications 
would include several contributions to scientific periodicals, 
mainly to “ Hooker’s Journal of Botany,” and a few miscel- 
laneous writings. 
In April, 1861, Dr. Harvey married Miss Phelps of Lime- 
rick. If not robust, he was apparently in good health, in the 
full maturity of his powers, and it was hoped only at the 
noonday of his allotted course of usefulness. But ere the lec- 
ture season of that summer was over, an attack of hemorrhage 
