70 J. H. MAIDEN. 
1811. Went toschool at Ballitore, Co. Kildare, the master 
of which was an accomplished botanist. Sailed in 1835 for 
Cape Town and studied the botany of South Africa. 
Returned to England in 1842, and became the leading 
authority on alge. Hon. M.D. of Dublin and Curator of 
the Herbarium of Trinity College, 1844 ; and succeeded, in 
1856, to the Chair of Botany at the University. In 1849 
he visited the United States, and between 1853-6 India, 
Australia and the South Sea Islands. Author of ‘‘Genera 
of S. African Plants,’’ 1838; ‘‘Manual of British Alge,”’’ 
1841; ‘‘ Phycologia Britannica,’’ 1846-51; and numerous 
other works. Died at Torquay. The genus Harveya was 
dedicated to him. At Kew there is a coloured crayon 
drawing of him by Sir Daniel Macnee, P.R.S.A., also a bust, 
seated, clean shaven, face three-quarters to the left. 
Dimensions 175 ins. by 13% ins. Hooker collection. Also 
a lithograph, 1850, by T. H. Maguire. Half length, seated, 
holding a book, face three-quarters to the right. Autograph 
(facsimile) (8). 
“In 1854 he visited Australia for the purpose of investigating 
the Algology of its shores; he landed at King George’s Sound, 
went overland to Swan River and Cape Riche, then to Melbourne, 
Tasmania, and Sydney, forming magnificent collections of Alge, 
many of which have been published in the “ Phycologia Australica,” 
in this work, and elsewhere.” (8). 
In addition to the works already enumerated, see ‘‘Nereis 
australis ; or Algz of the Southern Ocean, etc.’’ London, 
1847, 8 vo. ‘“‘Some account of the marine botany of the 
Colony of Western Australia,” (Trans. R. Irish Acad. xxii.) 
Dublin, 1855, 4 to. ‘‘Phycologica australica: or a History 
of the Australian Seaweeds, etc.’’ London, 1858-63, 5 vols. 
8 vo. See also his papers on the Algz of Tasmania, Tas. 
Journ., Vol. 11, pp. 377, 421, 1846; Vol. II, pp. 55, 153, 209, 
1849. See also an obituary notice in Seemann’s Journ. 
