Obituary — Br. Harvey B. Holl 527 



On the breaking out of the Crimean War, Dr. Holl was appointed 

 one of the Senior Civil Surgeons to aid the military staff, which was 

 totally inadequate to the heavy strain laid upon it by the first year's 

 severe trials and sufferings. He remained abroad until the end of 

 the campaign, serving partly in the Crimea, but most of the time in 

 the hospital at Scutari. On his return after the conclusion of peace 

 with Russia, he settled for some years as a medical practitioner in St. 

 George's Square, Pimlico. 



Dr. Holl was remarkable for his extremely reserved and retiring 

 habits and formed consequently but few friendships. Yet he was 

 by no means a man of small ability. As a medical practitioner he 

 might have attained great eminence, but he never was ambitious 

 of fame. 



An earnest student of Cryptogamic Botany, he has left some forty- 

 seven volumes of carefully collected British Lichens, all arranged 

 and named by himself. He was also a liberal donor to the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum. 



As a geologist and palaeontologist, he displayed great power, 

 and his papers always met with high appreciation in the Geological 

 Society. During his field-excursions he had formed a considerable 

 collection of British fossils, among which were numerous species 

 and varieties of the Silurian genera Beyrichia, Primitia, and their 

 allies, in very perfect preservation. As a good microscopist, clever 

 draughtsman, and careful observer, he willingly and ably co-operated 

 with Professor Rupert Jones in the study and description of the older 

 Ostracoda. Within this year even he warmly assisted in the work, 

 and notwithstanding his declining health, he supplied new sketches 

 and notes of his favourite little fossils. 



Dr. Holl was well known among the leading members of the 

 Hereford, Woolhope, Malvern, and Cotteswold Natural History 

 Field Clubs, and was himself frequently present at their meetings 

 and excursions. 



Although an excellent palaeontologist, he will probably be most 

 widely known and remembered as an able and experienced geologist, 

 and the papers which will best be recollected are those on the Geolo- 

 gical Structure of the Malvern Hills, in which area he made great 

 advances on the work of Prof. Phillips ; and his memoir " On the 

 Older Rocks of South Devon and East Cornwall," in which he 

 exemplified the excellence in method of his early teacher in Devonian 

 geology, Sir Henry de la Beche. 



To those who had the pleasure to know him, and were able to 

 penetrate beneath his ordinary reserve, he will be remembered as 

 a genial and pleasant comrade, full of scientific information, and 

 lasting in his attachment to his friends. 



Dr. Holl was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1862, 

 and having about this time relinquished his practice, he removed to 

 Tower Lodge, The Link, Malvern, where he again took up his 

 favourite geological studies, and in 1863 communicated a paper to 

 the British Association " On the Metamorphic Rocks of the Malvern 

 Hills." J 



1 Brit. Assoc. Report, 1863 (part 2), pp. 70—73. 



