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1856. The algological collections of these three laborious 

 years, or the Australian portion of them, formed the subject 

 of Professor Harvey's third great illustrated work, and one of 

 the most exquisite of the kind, the " Phycologia Australica," 

 the serial publication of which began in 1858 and was con- 

 cluded in 1863, in five imperial octavo volumes, each of sixty 

 colored plates. All but the last century of plates were put 

 upon stone by the author. 



Upon Dr. Harvey's return in 1856 from his long expedition 

 he found the chair of botany in the University of Dublin 

 vacated by the appointment of Dr. Allman to that of natural 

 history in the University of Edinburgh ; and he was at once 

 preferred to the position which he had sought when younger 

 and freer, and which he now occupied till his death. The ex- 

 hausting duties of this chair, and of that which he still held in 

 the Royal Dublin Society, undiminished by the transference 

 to the government Museum of Irish Industry, did not pre- 

 vent Professor Harvey from entering with unabated ardor 

 upon an undertaking of greater magnitude than any preced- 

 ing one. This was the " Flora Capensis," a full systematic 

 account of all the plants of the Cape Colony and the adjacent 

 provinces of Caffraria and Natal, — in which he was asso- 

 ciated with Dr. Sonder of Hamburg. Three thick octavo 

 volumes of this work have appeared, the last in 1865, includ- 

 ing the Compositce. Along with this Dr. Harvey — learn- 

 ing for the purpose another form of lithographic drawing — 

 brought out, between the years 1859 and 1864, two volumes 

 of his " Thesaurus Capensis, or Illustrations of the South 

 African Flora," comprising two hundred plates of interesting 

 phsenogamous plants. A complete list of his publications 

 would include several contributions to scientific periodicals, 

 mainly to " Hooker's Journal of Botany," and a few miscel- 

 laneous writings. 



In April, 1861, Dr. Harvey married Miss Phelps of Lime- 

 rick. If not robust, he was apparently in good health, in the 

 full maturity of his powers, and it was hoped only at the 

 noonday of his allotted course of usefulness. But ere the lec- 

 ture season of that summer was over, an attack of hemorrhage 



