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Dr. Harvey's college life, now fairly began, appears to have 

 exactly satisfied his tastes and wishes. Living much with his 

 sister, occupied with his favourite pursuits, and mixing in con- 

 genial society, he devoted himself to its duties with all his 

 accustomed ardour and industry. June 17th of this year, he 

 says : — " I am as busy as a bee these times, and now steal an 

 hour of the night to write this hurried note. I rise at five a.m., 

 or before it, and work till breakfast-time (half-past eight) at the 

 ' Antarctic Algae.' Directly after breakfast I start for the College, 

 and do not leave it till five o'clock in the evening. Again at 

 plants till dusk. I am writing on the ' Antarctic Algae,' and 

 arranging the Herbarium, and have been working at Coulter's 

 Mexican and Californian plants. I have free range of the 

 Library, to go there and poke into any hole and corner I like. 

 The books are not lent out, however, but I chiefly go to consult 

 illustrated works, and that can be done very well there* To-day 

 I had a Latin letter from Pesth, in Hungary, beginning ' Spec- 

 tabilis et Doctissime Domine.' Were I an alderman what more 

 could he say ?" 



About the same time he writes to another relative : — " I am 

 glad you are pleased with Leighton, 1 as I was last winter. 

 I read the first volume every night before going to bed when I 

 had a fire in my room, but I have been put out by coming here 

 (to T. C. D.), and my readings have fallen into arrear. On 

 Sundays I have been reading Magee's great book. 2 Pity it has 

 so little arrangement, is so much ' at random struug.' How- 

 ever, it is indeed a great work, and the style is beautiful, lucidly 

 clear, and the controversial part bitingly severe, without de- 

 viating in the least from the dignity of a Christian author." 



The college vacation of 1844, like many future ones, was 

 spent by Dr. Harvey chiefly at Kew. A visit to his friends 

 there was always a time of the highest enjoyment. He writes, 

 August 20th : — " I came here on the 10th August, and have 

 been a fixture ever since. Except an occasional day in London, 

 I have been but little beyond the garden and lawn, only a few 

 times at the Botanical Gardens, nearly a mile distant. My 

 time has been spent partly in arranging Sir William's unsettled 

 bundles, and partly in selecting duplicates for the College 



1 Archbishop Leighton's Commentary on 1st Epistle of St. Peter. 

 2 On the Atonement. 



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