LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOKDON. Ixi 



highly spokeij of by. those competent to form an opinion on the 

 subject. 



From the above summary it may be seen that Dr. Daniell was 

 indefatigable in his labours and researches while on service abroad 

 and at home, and we can now only deplore that one who had not 

 only enlarged the boundaries of science himself, but had also en- 

 abled others to do the same, has been removed from us at such an 

 early age. (^Pharmaceutical Journal, ISTo. 74, slightly condensed, 

 and with some additions in reference to our own Journal.) 



Joseph Dickinson, Esq., M.A., M.D., F.B.8. Died on the 26th 

 of July, 1865. 



The following excellent memoir of Dr. Harvey is abridged from 

 the ' Gardener's Chronicle,' June 9th, 1866 : — 



"William Henry Rarvey, M.D., F.B.S.,M.B.I.A., Vrotessor of 

 Botany in the University of Dublin, &c., &c., was born of Quaker 

 parents on the 5th February, 1811, at Summerville, near Limerick, 

 the residence of his father Joseph M. Harvey, for many years a 

 highly respected and influential merchant in that city. 



" From a very early period he manifested an ardent love of 

 plants ; and the fact of his father's family frequently spending a 

 portion of the summer at the sea-side, generally at Miltown Mal- 

 bay, on the coast of Clare, Ireland, afforded him great opportunity 

 for the indulgence of his taste for natural history. This bold and 

 picturesque coast, open to the mighty roll of the Atlantic, abounded 

 in those marine plants which in after life became his special study. 

 The rudiments of knowledge then acquired resulted in forming 

 him some years later into the most eminent Algologist of his day. 



" In the year 1824 he was sent to Ballitore School, in the county 

 of Kildare, then conducted by Mr. James White, a man of talent 

 and learning, who encouraged young Harvey in his tastes and 

 pursuits, giving him at the same time an excellent general edu- 

 cation. 



" For some years after leaving school he was engaged in his 

 father's house of business at Limerick, but natural history ab- 

 sorbed all his spare time and nearly aU his energies. His holidays 

 were devoted to excursions and collecting, and he rapidly acquired 

 a thorough acquaintance with plants, especially the Algse and 

 Mosses of South-western Ireland, and made considerable advances 

 in Entomology and Conchology. Interesting discoveries soon 

 rewarded his exertions and stimulated his zeal. Amongst these 

 one was of a new freshwater sheU in the mountains of Killarney, 

 and another of two new habitats for the rare and beautiful Moss, 



