322 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



Loo-choo bundles, and these are by far the largest. There are 

 a good many new species, some curious, and one new genus — a 

 very distinct and beautiful thing, Halicoryne Wrightii. I should 

 be glad to figure it in our Dublin " Natural History Review " as 

 it is a curious new type of my family " Dasycladem " in " Nereis 

 Bor. Amer." 



I am going to begin a new affair on the plan of Hooker's 

 "Icones Plantarum." I call it " Thesaurus Capensis:" figures of 

 Cape plants, whether new or old ; anything in short that I please, 

 to illustrate the Flora. Without professing to figure all the 

 genera, I shall make it serve the purpose of illustrating those 

 that are the least known and least obvious, and that have not 

 been previously figured as garden plants. I shall also use it for 

 rapidly figuring remarkable novelties that from time to time 

 drop in. It remains to be seen whether it go beyond a volume. 

 So far as material goes it might run on to twenty or thirty ! 



Tell Madame, with my love, that I am reading the " Autocrat " 

 every evening at teatime, and I like it much. It is very clever 

 and original, very racy and droll, and I might add very wise. 

 Some of the poetry also I like much. " The Nautilus " is newly 

 turned. His chapters on the commencement of old age I take 

 to myself. I am now in my third year, commencing at forty- 

 five, and begin to be treated with respect. Young men touch 

 their hats to me and call me Sir. If I don't mistake, my old 

 friend Dr. Mackay must be eighty-four or eighty-five, but he 

 looks and I suppose feels as young as he has done any day these 

 ten years. I set him at work which gave him occupation for 

 several months at five hours a day : preparing an authentic set 

 of plants of " Flora Hibernica " to be kept permanently in 

 Trinity College, Dublin, as a separate collection for reference, 

 as to what he had had to work on when writing his book. And 

 now in my Cape Thesaurus I am going to reward him with a 

 Mackaya hella. As yet we have had neither frost nor snow. 

 Snowdrops and crocuses are peeping, hepaticas in bloom, and 

 the winter aconite (Eranthis) my special pet, already a going. 



To Miss B. Harvey, New York. 



Trinity College, January 21st, 1859. 

 I am sorry for M.'s sore eyes. I wish I could send her 

 a remedy. The only one I can think of at present is to suggest 



