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letters to Dr. Harvey, 1 who had sent him the first part o* 

 Stephens' ' Entomology ' with some specimens. As his own 

 collection is not yet very well supplied Scotland not being 

 a country where insects abound he sends, in default of a 

 better return; some German plants given him by Mr. Klotzsch 

 (December 3, 1833). 



And again on December 11, 1835, when Dr. Harvey had 

 promised to collect insects for him at the Cape, he sends 

 instructions as to a new method of preserving specimens in 

 hot climates, and continues : 



Your account of the country fills me with an ardent desire 

 to go there ; however, I suppose I must be content to live 

 on that unnourishing diet hope for some years to come. I 

 should give a great deal to be present at the opening of the 

 boxes of insects the travellers from the interior bring down, 

 they must bring some splendid things ; pray, what becomes 

 of them ? 



William is particularly obliged for your anxiety about 

 procuring birds, and, believe me, I am more eaten up with 

 entomological zeal than ever ; who knows but I may, ere I 

 die, publish an Entomologia Capensis ? That poor unfortu- 

 nate Stephens is determined to go on to the end with his 

 invaluable work ; he cannot now, I hear, afford to keep his 



owner, who was Mayor of Great Yarmouth in 1817. The Pagets, the Dawson 

 Turners, and the Hookers were closely allied in a friendship of long standing. 



Between 1830 and 1834 James was apprenticed to Dr. Costerton, and, with 

 his brother Charles, wrote a book on the natural history of Great Yarmouth. 



1 William Henry Harvey (1811-66), of Irish Quaker stock, began his 

 lifelong friendship with Sir W. J. Hooker through his discovery at Killarney of 

 the moss Hookeria Icetevirens (1831). After holding various posts at Dublin he 

 went in 1835 to South Africa with his brother, on whose death he succeeded 

 in the post of Colonial Treasurer. In 1842 he broke down in body and 

 mind from overwork. Returning home, he became Keeper of the University 

 Herbarium at Dublin, and in 1848 Professor of Botany under the Royal Dublin 

 Society. He visited America in 1849-70 ; the Indian Ocean and Australasia 

 in 1853-6, and on his return succeeded to the botanical chair at Trinity College, 

 Dublin. 



His work included a Flora Capensis, but he is best known as an authority 

 on Algae, publishing a Manual of British Algae (Laylor, 1841), the Phycologia 

 Britannica, Nereis Australia, The Seaside Book (1849), Nereis Boreali- Ameri- 

 cana, Phycologia Australica, as well as on the Antarctic Algae ofBeechey's Voyage, 

 and to him J. D. H. refers his collection of Southern Algae. His work lay 

 in ' discrimination, description, and illustration ' ; he had no share in the 

 Darwinian movement, though ready to admit natural selection as a vera 

 causa of much change, he would not go so far as to admit it as a vera causa 

 of species. 



