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from the lungs gave notice of a serious pulmonary disease. 
Yet he seemed to recover from this almost completely: he 
resumed his stated work, and gave his lectures as usual in 
1863, and also in the spring of the following year, but with 
some difficulty. The winter and spring of 1864-65 were 
spent in the south of France, with only transient benefit. 
Returning to his home and his herbarium, he worked on still 
at the Cape Flora, with cheerful spirit but feeble hands, until 
he could work no longer. Last spring he sought in Devon- 
shire a milder air, and found a peaceful rest. “On Tuesday, 
the 15th of May, 1866, at the age of fifty-five years, he quiet- 
ly breathed his last, at the residence of Lady Hooker, the 
widow of his long-attached friend Sir William J. Hooker, 
surrounded by kind and anxious relatives and friends, and 
was buried in the cemetery at Torquay on Saturday, the 19th 
of May.” 
Mr. Harvey was one of the few botanists of our day who 
excelled both in Phenogamie and Cryptogamiec botany. In 
Algology, his favorite branch, he left probably no superior ; 
in systematic botany generally he had won an eminent posi- 
tion. He was a keen observer and a capital describer. He 
investigated accurately, worked readily and easily with mi- 
croscope, pencil, and pen, wrote perspicuously, and where the 
subject permitted, with captivating grace, affording, in his 
lighter productions, mere glimpses of the warm and poetical 
imagination, delicate humor, refined feeling, and sincere good- 
ness which were charmingly revealed in intimate intercourse 
and correspondence, and which won the admiration and the 
love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle 
and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted, but of 
very retiring disposition, simple in his tastes and unaffectedly 
devout, it is not surprising that he attracted friends wherever 
he went, so that his death will be sensibly felt on every con- 
tinent and in the islands of the sea. 
