26 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



Change of air being recommended for the restoration of his 

 father's health, William accompanied him to Kingstown, which 

 was chosen as a seaside residence for some months. " Dublin 

 Bay," he writes, on this occasion "is not the best place for 

 Algm. It is impossible, however, unless you go with your eyes 

 shut, to visit any of our coasts without finding something new." 

 That this, in his case, was verified, appears in the following 

 letter, which also discloses his prospect of the long wished-for 

 visit to Glasgow. 



To Mr. J. Fennell. 



Kingstown, Dublin, September, 1832. 

 I went to Portmarnock a few days ago, with J. T. Mackay 

 and sundry others, and, being in such good company, found lots 

 of plants. Mackay proposes other excursions north and south, 

 in which 1 hope to add respectably to our Herbarium. This, is 

 a vile place for Algse, and yet I have already found two new 

 species of Callithamnium. I intend starting at last for Glasgow 

 next week. W. P. and I propose to ourselves a walking excur- 

 sion through the Highlands, to return by the Giant's Cause- 

 way. This trip will, I hope, be productive of many plants. 

 Dr. Greville promises me many varieties from a late trip in the 

 north of Scotland, in which his party had to put up with the 

 most praiseworthy hardships, such as sleeping in the heather, 

 and boiling their tea in an eight gallon iron pot, supping it 

 with ladles, no doubt. 



I have lately got a most pleasant correspondent in Mrs. Grif- 

 fiths, a Devonshire lady, knowing Algee; and I can afford thee 

 some good pickings from her beautiful parcel. She writes me 

 there is another on the way. She is a peculiarly agreeable 

 person to me, in having the happiest knack of finding the rarest 

 and most beautiful plants in the most perfect state ; and from 

 her isolated situation and the fewness of her references, she is 

 glad to get in return for specimens my " valuable remarks !" 

 an easy method of purchase. She is the " Patron Saint " of the 

 genus Griffithsia. I am preparing drawings of seaweeds for 

 ' ' English Botany Supplement," which is the way, after all, in 

 which my "new book" will appear. The drawings and de- 

 scriptions will be partly by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley and partly 

 by your humble servant. 



