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" In tlie year 1838 lie prepared and published at tlie Cape of 

 Grood Hope his first important botanical work, ' The G-enera of 

 South African Plants.' The ' Manual of British Algae ' was brought 

 out in London, 1841 ; the ' Phycologia Britannica ' in 1846-51, 

 4 vols., and, in London, same years, in 3 vols.; ' Nereis Australia, or 

 Alga3 of the Southern Ocean,' London, 1847 ; ' The Sea-side Book,' 

 London, 1849; ' Phycologia Australica,' London, 1858-63, 5Vols. ; 

 ' Plora Capensis, being a Systematic Description of the Plants of 

 the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal,' in conjunction with 

 Dr. P. W. Sonder, Dublin, 1859 to 1865, vols. i. to iii. ; 'Index 

 Generum Algarum, or a Systematic Catalogue of the G-enera of 

 Algae,' London, 1860 ; ' Nereis Boreali- Americana, or Contribu- 

 tions to a History of the Marine Algae of North America,' con- 

 tained in volumes iii., v., and x. of the Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge, published in the United States in 1852." Dr. 

 Harvey's only contribution to the publications of this Society is a 

 " Notice of a Collection of Algae made on the North-west Coast of 

 North America, chiefly at Vancouver's Island, by David Lyall, 

 M.D., E.N., in the years 1859-61" (Journal, vol. vi.). 



General Sir John Bennett Searsey, K.G.B., was a Cornet in 

 1808 ; he was present at the battle of Seetabuldie and at the 

 siege and capture of Bhurtpore ; in the Punjaub campaign of 

 1848-49 he was at Chilianwallah and Goojerat, and commanded 

 the cavalry in the pursuit and at the final surrender of the Sikh 

 arm)^ He was several times wounded, and was made a K.C.B. 

 for his services in the great mutiny of 1857. At that time he was 

 in command of the Bengal division, with his headquarters at Bar- 

 rackpore. Speaking of a chief of long standing in the service, 

 " who to the cost of humanity was in charge of Meerut on that 

 (first) day of evil omen," the Competition "Wallah says, " Such 

 a chief was not in charge of Barrackpore at the crisis, when fore- 

 sight, calmness, and judicious severity broke up a battalion of 

 murderous scoundrels, and saved the capital of India from the 

 fate of Cawnpore. Hearsey at Meerut, Neill at Dinapore, and 

 Outram at Allahabad might have saved much of the good blood 

 that was spilled, and much of the bad blood that remained"*. 

 G-eneral Hearsey served fifty-three years in India, thirty-four of 

 them without a furlough. He was a most zealous collector, and 

 an untiring observer. It was to him and other ofiicers in India 

 that Professor Westwood was indebted for the materials of that 

 * Macmillan's Magazine, viii. p. 343. 



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