224 WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY 



Asa Gray summed up Harvey's work and character shortly after 

 his decease^ : " He was a keen observer and a capital describer. 

 He investigated accurately, worked easily and readily with 

 microscope, 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 humour, 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 continent 

 and in the islands of the sea." 



^ American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XLH. p. 277. 



