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CHAPTEB XVI. 



HOME LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



Early in October Dr. Harvey reached home, after an absence 

 of over three years. In November he writes to Ins friend Mrs. 

 Gray : " I have now been a whole month landed, and I ought 

 to have written to you, were it only to say that I am at this side 

 of the world, and that I have not forgotten either you or my 

 other friends in America." " I had hoped to have come home 

 by the States, and just to have looked in on you, but finding 

 when I reached Panama that I should have to wait a fortnight 

 for a steamer, I preferred to push homeward, so as to arrive at 

 the beginning of College term." 



Meanwhile the chair of Botany had become vacant in Dublin 

 University by the appointment of Professor Allman to that of 

 Edinburgh, and Dr. Harvey was unanimously chosen to succeed 

 him. The chair which he still held in the Dublin Society 

 House was about the same time transferred to the Museum of 

 Industry ; and this change appears to have led to some increase 

 of duty, as he tells Mrs. Gray that he is too busy to write letters, 

 having, besides the drudgery of sorting and sticking his Austra- 

 lian Algse, the prospect of having to give additional lectures, 

 in consequence of the Professorship at Dublin Society House 

 being converted into a Natural History and Economic chair. 

 He mentions, moreover, his being requested by the College to 

 give a Zoology course to the class formed for " Civil Service 

 Cadets," and this in addition to his usual forty Botanical lec- 

 tures. •• A year hence," he adds, " I should not perhaps mind all 

 this, but coming just now it is rather pressing, and I cannot say 

 when I shall be able to take up my proper work. The first 

 thing i shall then do will be to finish off the Nereis Boreali 



