Ill Premlenfs Addrfss, [July 28, 



Ms own observations upon living plants. Considering the time at 

 which it was produced, and the absence of literary adjumenta, it is a 

 wonderful performance. But his study of predilection was that of 

 Alfjce, and in this branch he had few rivals. His " Manual of British 

 Algce^'' was the precursor of the large and beautiful '' Plujcolocjia 

 Britannica,^'' the whole of the 360 plates in which were drawn in color 

 on the stone with his own hand. In 1849 he was invited to visit and 

 lecture in America, both at the Boston Lowell Institute, and at the 

 Smithsonian, in Washington. This accomplished, he commencd explo- 

 ration of the southern seaboard of the United States, and spent part 

 of a year in investigations, the result of which appeared under the 

 auspices of the Smithsonian Institution as Nereis Boreali -Americana, 

 published in 1852-58. The manuscript of this \^ork was scarcely 

 completed when he entered upon a graver task. Obtaining extended 

 leave of absence he went via the Eed Sea and Point de Galle to 

 Australia, and explored every accessible j)art of the coast. Then 

 returning to Sydney after an examination of the Tasmanian shores, 

 he found the missionary brig John Wesley in the harbour, about to 

 start on her annual cruise from station to station in the South Sea 

 Islands. He took passage in her and visited the Friendly Islands, 

 Navigators' Islands, and lastly Fiji, then just emerging from its early 

 cannibal state, Here he was for a long time the honoured guest of 

 my brother-in-law, Eev. W. Wilson, at A^iwa. He returned laden 

 with the algological spoil of many lands in 1856, and before two years 

 elapsed had issued the first part of his Phycologia Amfralica, a magni- 

 ficent work in five octavo volumes, with 300 coloured plates. Two- 

 thirds of these drawings were made on stone by himself. 



The transfer of Dr. Allman to Edinburgh in 1856 threw open tlie 

 Chair of Botany once more. This time there were no difficulties 

 raised, and Harvey accepted the duty, although it greatly increased 

 his amount of routine labour. 



He was about this time solicited by Sir W. J. Hooker to assist in his 

 great scheme of Colonial Floras, which in case of Australia, the AVest 

 Indies, Mauritius, and Hong-Kong, has been brought to a conclusion, 

 but in that of India has been prolonged by the very magnitude of the 

 work, and in that of the Cape has stopped for over twenty years, it is 

 hard to say for what reason. Harvey undertook a new Fiora Capoisis in 

 conjunction with Dr. Otto Wilhelm Sender, of Hamburg, a learned and 

 most accurate botanist, well acquainted with the subject. Three 

 volumes appeared at intervals from 1859 to 1865, and, collaterally with 

 them, tw^o volumes of illustrations under the title of " Thesaurus 

 Capensis,^^ containing each one hundred lithographic sketches of new 

 and rare plants, being the work of his own facile pencil. Amid all 

 tliis work, the lecture duty only seemed to be a strain upon his powers. 

 In 1861 he was threatened with hemorrhage from the lungs, and passed 

 tlirougli a series of apparent recover}' and relapse till 1864, when he 

 was ordered to the south of France to recruit. Returning to Dublin, 

 he worked on his Flora cheerfully, but witli increasing difficulty, and 

 just completed the manuscript of the third volume. He retired for 

 rest to Torquay, where Lady Hooker, the widow of his old friend of 

 earlier days, was residing, and there, amid the loving regrets of many 

 to whom he had endeared himself, he peacefully passed away, Ma}' 



15th, 1866. ('-") 



(*") Condensed from Dr. Asa Gray's obituary notice in Sillinian's Journal. 



