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of a mile to the house, poor things! I have called Mr. 

 Mac H.'s dwelling a house, but in colonial phrase it is only 

 a " hut," being a three-roomed " wattle and dab " erection, like 

 a small cottage. Nothing could exceed Mr. and Mrs, Mac H.'s 

 kindness to me the whole fortnight I was with them. I have 

 made a very good collection of Algse at the island, and have 

 discovered one very curious new species, resembling in form the 

 many-headed cotton-grass of the Irish bogs. " Colloquially " I 

 call it "bob-tails," but botanically I am going to name it 

 BeUotia, in memory of Lieutenant Bellot, the young French 

 volunteer who was lost in the search for Franklin, and I mean 

 to send it to a friend in Paris, to be noticed by the French 

 Institute and published first in that city. 



The shores are thickly strewn with sponges of all shapes and 

 textures. I have collected a barrel full, which I hope to send 

 home. There is also an immense quantity of a sea-squirt or 

 Ascidion, which looks like a dried Normandy pippin or a wizened 

 potato! On the end of one of the reefs a much larger 

 species of a similar animal is abundant. It is funnel-shaped, 

 one or two feet high, excessively tough, stiff, and shaggy, and 

 adheres most firmly to the rocks, standing high and dry at low 

 tides. A species of burrowing Echinus, or urchin, something 

 like those at Miltown, is found in the rock pools. I have 

 preserved a pair for R. Ball. Thus my time passed rapidly away, 

 fully occupied with my collections, and at the end of the 

 fortnight, to my no small regret, the Wyvern came to take 

 me back, and I left the island not half explored. 



I have called a very beautiful plant Apjohnia, partly after 

 Dr. A., and "partly after his wife. I am, thauk goodness, in 

 health and spirits, not homesick or tired. I rise at five or six, 

 and go to bed before eleven. 



Dr. Harvey left Melbourne on the loth January, 1855, for 

 Georgetown, Van Diemen's Land. Here he introduced himself 

 to the Episcopalian clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Feraday, and was 

 fortunate in finding in him an enthusiastic lover of natural 

 history, and especially of Algse. He had a boat and dredge, 

 and at once volunteered himself a firm ally and assistant. 

 During the month of his stay they had many excursions 

 together, and to Mr. Feraday's kindness and thorough know- 



