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from the lungs gave notice of a serious pulmonary disease. 

 Yet he seemed to recover from this almost completely : he 

 resumed his stated work, and gave his lectures as usual in 

 1863, and also in the spring of the following year, but with 

 some difficulty. The winter and spring of 1864-65 were 

 spent in the south of France, with only transient benefit. 

 Returning to his home and his herbarium, he worked on still 

 at the Cape Flora, with cheerful spirit but feeble hands, until 

 he could work no longer. Last spring he sought in Devon- 

 shire a milder air, and found a peaceful rest. " On Tuesday, 

 the 15th of May, 1866, at the age of fifty-five years, he quiet- 

 ly breathed his last, at the residence of Lady Hooker, the 

 widow of his long-attached friend Sir William J. Hooker, 

 surrounded by kind and anxious relatives and friends, and 

 was buried in the cemetery at Torquay on Saturday, the 19th 

 of May." 



Mr. Harvey was one of the few botanists of our day who 

 excelled both in Phaenogamic and Cryptogamic botany. In 

 Algology, his favorite branch, he left probably no superior ; 

 in systematic botany generally he had won an eminent posi- 

 tion. He was a keen observer and a capital describer. He 

 investigated accurately, worked readily and easily with mi- 

 croscope, 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 humor, 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 con- 

 tinent and in the islands of the sea. 



