WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY 

 1811 1866 



By R. LLOYD PRAEGER 



Early influences Natural History his "pretensions" to science choice 

 of a profession visit to London early publication South Africa 

 investigation of its flora appointed Keeper of University Herbarium, 

 Dublin Algology with Mrs Griffiths Phycologia Britannica appointed 

 to Professorship visit to America lectures and travels Nereis Boreali- 

 Americana travels in the East Australia New Zealand Fiji 

 return home election to chair at Trinity College, Dublin Phycologia 

 Australica marriage and death Harvey's limitations his reception 

 of Darwinism personal characteristics. 



Among the many illustrious names that figure on the 

 syllabus of the present course of lectures, that of Harvey is 

 probably one of the less generally known. This is due for the 

 most part to the fact that the subject to which the greater 

 portion of his energies was devoted the systematic study of 

 seaweeds occupies a somewhat remote niche in the edifice 

 of botany. Also many years of his life were spent in collecting 

 in distant regions ; and his retiring disposition, and com- 

 paratively early death, contributed to the same result. In the 

 scientific world of his day he avoided publicity, but laboured 

 with indomitable zeal at his chosen subject, leaving behind 

 him a series of splendidly illustrated descriptive works. For 

 a glimpse of the man himself his life, his aims, his thoughts 

 we have to rely almost entirely on a volume^ consisting mainly 

 of letters written to relations and to family friends, which was 



^ Memoir of W. H. Harvey, M.D., F.R.S., with selections from his journal and 

 correspondence. London, 1869. 



