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i friends where he is not personally known. Eeinwardt is 

 in raptures with it. 



Once back in England, he was busily engaged throughout 

 the spring in sorting out plants as return gifts to his French 

 hosts, in preparing for his Edinburgh lectures, in working 

 at his Flora Antarctica and at the Niger Flora, based on the 

 specimens brought back by the Expedition of 1841 under 

 Captain A. D. Trotter. All these things, and especially the 

 progress of the Flora, and detestation of mere species-mongering, 

 are reflected in frequent letters to Harvey — a correspondence 

 continued all through his stay at Edinburgh, for Harvey, 

 who had recently stayed at Kew and worked there before 

 being elected to the Dublin chair, was busily working out the 

 Antarctic Algae, both Hooker's and D'Urville's from Paris, and 

 was moreover a friend to whom he could scribble with the 

 careless freedom of intimacy, now chaffing his friend, now 

 poking iun at his own efforts as a lecturer, when lecturing 

 turned out to be a less terrible ordeal than he had expected ; for, 

 as his mother said, ' Joseph is not a sanguine or hopeful person : 

 but he becomes attached to his work : thus we trust he will 

 take interest in lecturing and warm towards it, as he proceeds.' 



The book suffered many vicissitudes ; Harvey took up 

 lithography and drew his own plates ; occasionally carefully 

 drawn plates were spoiled by the engraver or colourist, and a 

 monthly part was delayed ; so that the disheartened author 

 exclaims, * Never will I undertake such a work again. The 

 Icones is the only model for what a Botanical work should be. 

 I wish they would have let me publish in that form, and yet 

 I sighed for glory too' (April 29, 1845). Then for a time 

 Hooker, lacking the necessary books of reference at Edinburgh, 

 resolved to end the publication with Part X. But the work 

 was approved by those whose approval was worth having. 

 His Edinburgh lectures over, he took it up again, and in 

 October, being rejected for the Edinburgh chair, he was left 

 free to complete it on the original scale, taking care that 

 Smith's, Davis', Lyall's, Crozier's and Boss's names should 

 be attached to five of the fine Algae that required figuring. 



