15G MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



To Br. Robert Ball. 



Roundstone, August 22. 

 Yesterday, dredging, we found a new genus of Algae — new 

 to Britain, namely, Peysonellia, a Mediterranean thing, in fine 

 fruit, anew species (P. borealis, Harv.) but having all the generic 

 characters quite perfect. By the way, I expect you often saw it 

 on old oyster shells, but passed it by as a dirt-pie. A flourish of 

 trumpets about it, nevertheless, for it is really interesting. 

 Dredged on the scallop bed Birterbuy Bay. I intend to leave 

 this for Dublin this-day-week. Hope to see you on Monday 

 following : lots of pretty things — good — but not much variety. 

 Dredged Tellina squamula. 



October 21th. I have been very busy since my return from 

 Koundstone, at lithography every day, and sorting Mexican 

 plants every night. I must draw forty-eight plates for Beeve 

 between this and Christmas, which will keep me pretty busy. 



Writing to Mr. Ward on the 18th of December he enclosed 

 ■what he calls some Irish cobwebs, playfully remarking on the 

 fragrance of the peat smoke " acquired from their parentage in 

 an Irish cabin." The letter proceeds, " They were knit by poor 

 women in their own houses in the village of Stradbally, Queen's 

 ( Ymnty, the art having been taught them by a sister of Dr. 



F r, who lives there, and who, by the earnings thus obtained, 



has materially improved the condition of a large number of 

 families of the miserably poor. She has not, however, yet suc- 

 ceeded in curing the cabins of peat smoke, nor has she intro- 

 duced Ward's cases amongst them. 



" Hard times these, all through this wretched country. I 

 don't think the newspaper accounts are magnified. No state- 

 ment can well be worse than the truth. Many in the west 

 have perished with cold and hunger; the evil is so gigantic 

 that it is impossible to meet it fully." 



During this disastrous winter Mrs. Leadbeater's benevolent 

 exertions for the relief of the poor proved too much for her 

 delicate frame. While going amongst the sick, conducting a 

 soup-kitchen, and trying by every means in her power to keep 

 famine at bay, she heedlessly exposed herself to the severity of 

 a bitter frost, and caught a cold, which terminated in bronehitis, 



