316 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



and I say, get G. to dry wild flowers — not scraps without leaves, 

 or leaves without flowers, which are worthless — but specimens fit 

 to go into Herb. T. C. D., with a ticket like this : — 



Alisonia 



Oertrudiana. 







New 



genus and species. 

 Columbo, Chili 









W. H. 



H. 



July 



1856. 







I left drying paper with Mr. F. Field, but if more be wanted, 

 old newspapers will do perfectly well. Half a dozen pieces 

 should be dried of each kind, if so many can be found. Small 

 plants (annuals, &c.) should be plucked up by the roots, and 

 dried in one entire piece. Specimens of larger plants should 

 be broken in sizes from twelve to sixteen inches long. Two 

 boards, and a big stone or half hundredweight, are all the appa- 

 ratus required, and all the care, to give dry papers now and 

 again in the process of drying. Number the specimens sent ; 

 keep a corresponding set, also numbered; and then I can send 

 you the names, referring to a list of numbers. 



During this and the following year Dr. Harvey wrote few 

 letters. The next which appears to require insertion in this 

 narrative refers to the approaching death of Miss M. C. Harvey, 

 the daughter of his eldest and only surviving brother. Stripped 

 as he had already become by his sister's death, this fresh loss 

 sadly increased his sense of loneliness. 



No allusion has hitherto been made to his having been (to 

 use the words of reception) " grafted by baptism into the body 

 of Christ's Church," which took place on Ash Wednesday 

 (February 25th), 1816, in St. Mark's Church, Dublin, in the 

 presence of a few of his friends. No letters having been found 

 relative to this event, it has not as yet been alluded to in these 

 pages, owing to the construction which has been kept in view. 

 It seems proper, however, here to mention it, and to add that, 

 through the ordinances and services of the Church of his adoption, 

 he drew from " the wells of salvation " sustaining strength and 



