226 MEMOIR OF DR. EAR VEY. 



Where is the sheet of " Wright's Plants ?" Answer — with 

 the snow that fell last year. My sister wrote you a few days 



ago. We are obliged (very !) to you for teaching J Yankee 



Doodle, which salutes our ears often at unseasonable times. Last 

 night they had bird-calls, and were imitating the shrillest and 

 most persevering canaries till we were weary. How delicious 

 the quiet of the College, where I have got a new easy-chair in 

 which I can sit and read no-popery pamphlets. Have you 

 seen one by " A member of the United Church of England and 

 Ireland ?" It is capital, and real pleasant reading. But he is 

 severe on the poor Puseyites, and, I fear, justly. 



To Mrs. Harvey, New York. 



Lurgan, Feb. 24, 1851. 

 I am still detained here by my lectures ; but time has 

 passed agreeably enough, as I have had sufficient to occupy me, 

 either reading, writing, or working with the microscope. 



One day I went to Belfast (twenty miles distant), where I saw 

 several of my friends, and the Botanic Gardens. I also walked 

 over Queen's College, a new building of handsome structure, 

 in the Old English style, with a tall central tower, from which 

 there is a view, beautiful even in winter, but which must be 

 really lovely in summer — a broad valley, winding river, 

 picturesque hills, mills, chimneys, and houses, and the wide 

 stretching city (as you would call it, but it is merely a town with 

 us, though a large one) ; and then, in the near view, you look 

 down on the Botanic Gardens, like a map. The College has 

 much better lecture-rooms than old Trinity — to our shame be 

 it spoken — though we are the larger body by many a score. 1 

 Their library is a beautiful room. 



Yesterday (Sunday) a friend drove me to Armagh, fourteen 

 miles distant, the seat of the Irish primacy, and the see of St. 

 Patrick ; though his relics repose elsewhere. I had never been there 

 before ; the day (for winter) was beautiful — clear blue sky and sun- 

 shine, but rather sharp air. The larks were singing gaily overhead, 

 and the fields were green, as we have had no snow this winter 

 and very little frost. Armagh, though a renowned and ancient 



J A detached range of buildings for museum and lecture-rooms were erected 

 on the grounds of T. C. D. in 1855. 



