274 Scientific Intelligence. 
by his illustrious friend and patron, Harvey sought some it in 
which he mig evote himself to science; and it would a 
selected by Mr. Spring Rice (the late Lord momen: for the se of 
Colonial Sanaa at the Ca aie of Good Hope; that by some accident 
in 1841 and gave up the appoint tment. 
After two years of prostration and seclusion he was well again; and, 
in 1844, on the death of Dr. Coulter, he was appointed Keeper of the 
in . Aj 
added his own large collections, for which he was allowed fifty pounds 4 
year, in addition to a slender salary, and he pee to build up th 
herbarium into a first-c ass establishment. ip of Botany 
in the College, which was pretty well endowed, fell vacant about this 
time; and the College authorities, wishing to at Harvey to the chair 
and so to combine the two offices, conferred upon him the necessary de- 
gree of M.D. But it was contended that an eres degree did not 
meet the requirements, and so Dr. Allman, the present distinguished 
was sao by mortal disea: 
He had oie soi ih a the Cape in 1838, his Genera of South 
African Planis, hastily prepared, solely for local use, but no unworthy 
beginning of his work in Phznogamous Bota tany; and in his favorite 
department of the science he had brought out, in 1841, his Manual of 
British Alge, which he re-edited in 1849. He now commenced 
first of the series of his greater works, illustrated by his facile pencil, 
for he drew admirably. The first tip es of his excellent and 
beautiful Phycologia Britannica, a Hi h Seaweeds, contain- 
ng colored th va iti 
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