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letters to Dr. Harvey ,i who had sent him the first part o* 
Stephens' 'Entomology' with some specimens. As his own 
collection is not yet very well supphed — Scotland not being 
a comitry where insects aboimd — he sends, in default of a 
better return, some German plants given him by Mr. Klotzsch 
(December 3, 1833). 
And again on December 11, 1835, when Dr. Harvey had 
promised to collect insects for him at the Cape, he sends 
mstructions as to a new method of preserving specimens in 
hot climates, and continues : 
Your account of the country fills me with an ardent desire 
to go there ; however, I suppose I must be content to live 
on that unnourishing diet hoye for some years to come. I 
should give a great deal to be present at the opening of the 
boxes of insects the travellers from the interior bring down, 
they must bring some splendid things ; pray, what becomes 
of them ? 
Wilham is particularly obHged for your anxiety about 
procuring birds, and, beheve me, I am more eaten up with 
entomological zeal than ever ; who knows but I may, ere I 
die, pubhsh an Entomologia Capensis ? That poor unfortu- 
nate Stephens is determined to go on to the end with his 
invaluable work ; he cannot now, I hear, afford to keep his 
OAA-ner, who Mas Mayor of Great Yarmouth in 1817. The Pagets, the Dawson 
Turners, and the Hookers were closely allied in a friendship of long standing. 
Between 1830 and 1834 James was apprenticed to Dr. Costerton, and, with 
his brother Charles, wrote a book on the natural history of Great Yarmouth. 
1 WiUiam Henry Harvey (1811-66), of Irish Quaker stock, began his 
lifelong friendship with Sir W. J. Hooker through his discovery at Killarney of 
the moss Hooker ia Icetevirens (1831). After holding various posts at Dublin he 
went in 1835 to South Africa with his brother, on whose death he succeeded 
in the post of Colonial Treasurer. In 1842 he broke down in body and 
mind from. overwork. Returning home, he became Keeper of the University 
Herbarium at Dublin, and in 1848 Professor of Botany under the Royal Dublin 
Society. He visited America in 1849-70; the Indian Ocean and Australasia 
in 1853-6, and on his return succeeded to the botanical chair at Trinity College, 
Dublin. 
His work included a Flora Capensis, but he is best known as an authority 
on Algae, publishing a Manual of British Algae (Laylor, 1841), the Phycologia 
Britannica, Nereis Australis, The Seaside Book (1849), Nereis BorcaU-Ameri- 
cayia, Phycologia Australica, as well as on the Antarctic Algae ofBeechey's Voyage, 
and to him J. D. H. refers his collection of Southern Algae. His work lay 
in ' discrimination, description, and illustration ' ; he had no share in the 
Darwinian movement, though ready to admit natural selection as a vera 
causa of much change, he would not go so far as to admit it as a vera causa 
of species. 
