VICISSITUDES OF THE FLORA ANTARCTICA 189 
[^ friends where be is not personally known. Eeinwardt is 
. in raptures with it. 
Once back in England, be was busily engaged throughout 
the spring in sorting out plants as return gifts to his French 
hosts, in preparing for his Edinburgh lectures, in working 
at his Flora Antarctica and at the Niger Flora, based on the 
specimens brought back by the Expedition of 1841 under 
Captain A. D. Trotter. All these things, and especially the 
progress of the Flora, and detestation of mere species-mongering, 
are reflected in frequent letters to Harvey — a correspondence 
continued all through his stay at Edinburgh, for Harvey, 
who had recently stayed at Kew and worked there before 
being elected to the Dublin chair, was busily working out the 
Antarctic Algae, both Hooker's and D'Urville's from Paris, and 
was moreover a friend to whom he could scribble with the 
careless freedom of intimacy, now chaffing his friend, now 
poking fun at his own efforts as a lecturer, when lecturing 
turned out to be a less terrible ordeal than he had expected ; for, 
as his mother said, ' Joseph is not a sanguine or hopeful person : 
but he becomes attached to his work : thus we trust he will 
take interest in lecturing and warm towards it, as he proceeds.' 
The book suffered many vicissitudes ; Harvey took up 
lithography and drew his own plates ; occasionally carefully 
drawn plates were spoiled by the engraver or colourist, and a 
monthly part was delayed ; so that the disheartened author 
exclaims, ' Never will I undertake such a work again. The 
Icones is the only model for what a Botanical work should be. 
I wish they would have let me publish in that form, and yet 
I sighed for glory too' (April 29, 1845). Then for a time 
Hooker, lacking the necessary books of reference at Edinburgh, 
resolved to end the publication with Part X. But the work 
was approved by those whose approval was worth having. 
His Edinburgh lectures over, he took it up again, and in 
October, being rejected for .the Edinburgh chair, he was left 
free to complete it on the original scale, taking care that 
Smith's, Davis', Lyall's, Crozier's and Boss's names should 
be attached to five of the fine Algae that required figuring. 
