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Eurypterus in character, obtained from the Lower Ludlow beds, for which 
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Ill. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
. Wittram Henry Harvey, whose lamented death was announced 
in the last number of this Journal (p. 129), was born at Summerville, 
near Limerick, Ireland, on the 5th of February, 181 1. His father, Joseph 
M. Harvey, was a highly res merchant in that city, and a member 
of the Society of Friends. William Henry was, we believe, the young- 
est of several children. He received a good education at Ballitore School, 
~—an institution of the Friends, and on leaving it was engaged for a time 
in his father’s counting-room, devoting, however, all his spare time to 
Natural History, his favorite pursuit even from boyhood. He made con- 
siderable attainments in Entomology and Conchology, and in Botany he 
early turned his attention to Mosses and oe To the study of the 
latter, in which he became preéminent, he w from the first 
by the opportunities which he enjoyed on “i paserdie western coast 
of Ireland, the family usually spending a good part of the summer at 
the eea-side, mostly on the bold and picturesque i of Clare. Ast 
rare moss, which Sir J. E. Smith, so in turn was 
whee 's, iy his his discovery of two new habitats of another r rare moss, t 
led to a with Hook t 
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